doy
[ˈd̪oj]
The verdict
“doy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,570) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,570
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de dar o de darse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-doy · doy · Spanish
doy · rank #1,570 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,570
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH documento
Nearest frequency peer: documento (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “doy”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- corto
corto
98,434 corpus weight
- documento
documento
98,432 corpus weight
- doy
doy
98,431 corpus weight
- dudas
dudas
98,430 corpus weight
- espíritu
espíritu
98,429 corpus weight
- existencia
existencia
98,428 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “doy” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈd̪oj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “doy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for doy is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "DVD", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈd̪oj]. Frequency #1,570 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de dar o de darse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for doy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "DVD", "dúo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is doy, spelled D-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de dar o de darse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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