hoi
[ˈoj]
The verdict
“hoi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,480) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,480
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía obsoleta de hoy
Corpus desk
Index ES-hoi · hoi · Spanish
hoi · rank #42,480 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,480
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH honorífica
Nearest frequency peer: honorífica (+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 “hoi”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- hidratación
hidratación
57,525 corpus weight
- hilar
hilar
57,524 corpus weight
- hipotermia
hipotermia
57,523 corpus weight
- hoi
hoi
57,521 corpus weight
- honorífica
honorífica
57,520 corpus weight
- ideólogos
ideólogos
57,518 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “hoi” 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 | hoi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈoj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “hoi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hoi is neighbouring look-alikes ("hoy", "hot", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [ˈoj]. Frequency #42,480 among 1,569 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hoi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hoy", "hot", "hop", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is hoi, spelled H-O-I.
Definition
- 1Grafía obsoleta de hoy
- 2Tiempo que transcurre actualmente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hoi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hoi ya todo le es ajeno,/ aún el propio destino.
Synonyms
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hoi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).