oye
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,088
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oye is anSpanishintj. It means: Se usa para llamar sobre sí mismo la atención de otra persona. Pronounced [ˈoʝe]. It ranks #2,088 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with oz and oyen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oye |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | [ˈoʝe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oye is 3 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoʝe]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,088 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oye in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "oyen", "oyes", 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 oye, spelled O-Y-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se usa para llamar sobre sí mismo la atención de otra persona.
- 2Se usa para reconvenir o advertir a alguien de que hace algo impropio o incorrecto.
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Frequency rank: #2,088 in Spanish
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