oi
['oj]
The verdict
“oi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,583) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,583
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de hue.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oi · oi · Spanish
oi · rank #24,583 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,583
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH oligarcas
Nearest frequency peer: oligarcas (+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 “oi”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- observarse
observarse
75,422 corpus weight
- ocultado
ocultado
75,421 corpus weight
- ocupamos
ocupamos
75,420 corpus weight
- oi
oi
75,418 corpus weight
- oligarcas
oligarcas
75,417 corpus weight
- ovario
ovario
75,414 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oi” 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 | oi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | ['oj] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oi is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ok", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced ['oj]. Frequency #24,583 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de hue.".
Zero misspellings are on record for oi in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ok", "on", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Spanish form is oi, spelled O-I.
Definition
- 1Variante de hue.
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.