hoyo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,063
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hoyo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Depresión de forma aproximadamente cóncava practicada en una superficie. Pronounced [ˈoʝo]. Often confused with hoz and huy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoyo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoʝo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hoyo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,063 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for hoyo, with forms such as "hhoyo", "hooy", and "hoyyo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hoz", "huy", "hubo", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is hoyo, spelled H-O-Y-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Depresión de forma aproximadamente cóncava practicada en una superficie.
- 2En especial, aquella realizada con la intención de dar sepultura a un cadáver.
- 3Pequeña depresión característica de la faz de algunas personas, que se forma en la mejilla o el mentón al sonreir.
- 4Cada una de las fases del juego, en que los jugadores deben introducir una bola en un hoyo₁ practicado en el suelo.
- 5Conducto que comunica el útero y la vulva, usado en relaciones sexuales y para el nacimiento.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhoyo,hooy,hoyyo,hyoo,ohyo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hoyo
Misspelling Variants of "hoyo"
Frequency rank: #11,063 in Spanish
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