joy
/d͡ʒɔɪ/
The verdict
“joy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,368) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,368
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gozo, alegría, regocijo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-joy · joy · Spanish
joy · rank #16,368 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,368
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Jules
Nearest frequency peer: Jules (+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 “joy”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- instintos
instintos
83,637 corpus weight
- insular
insular
83,636 corpus weight
- inédito
inédito
83,635 corpus weight
- joy
joy
83,633 corpus weight
- Jules
Jules
83,632 corpus weight
- lake
lake
83,630 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “joy” 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 | joy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /d͡ʒɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “joy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for joy is neighbouring look-alikes ("ju", "jul", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /d͡ʒɔɪ/. Frequency #16,368 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Gozo, alegría, regocijo.".
joy has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ju", "jul", "jus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is joy, spelled J-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Gozo, alegría, regocijo.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).