noi
/ˈnoj/
The verdict
“noi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,471) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,471
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nosotros
Corpus desk
Index ES-noi · noi · Spanish
noi · rank #45,471 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,471
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Ney
Nearest frequency peer: Ney (-2 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 “noi”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- naturalizado
naturalizado
54,534 corpus weight
- necesitaría…
necesitaríamos
54,533 corpus weight
- Ney
Ney
54,532 corpus weight
- noi
noi
54,530 corpus weight
- nombraba
nombraba
54,528 corpus weight
- novillo
novillo
54,526 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “noi” 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 | noi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈnoj/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “noi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for noi is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "nu", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈnoj/. Frequency #45,471 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nosotros".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for noi, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "nu", "nt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 noi, spelled N-O-I.
Definition
- 1Nosotros
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 "noi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).