roi
/ʀwa/
The verdict
“roi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,242) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,242
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rey.
Corpus desk
Index ES-roi · roi · Spanish
roi · rank #35,242 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,242
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rigurosamente
Nearest frequency peer: rigurosamente (-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 “roi”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- revisé
revisé
64,762 corpus weight
- rezaba
rezaba
64,761 corpus weight
- rigurosamen…
rigurosamente
64,760 corpus weight
- roi
roi
64,759 corpus weight
- Rosell
Rosell
64,757 corpus weight
- Roxy
Roxy
64,756 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “roi” 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 | roi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʀwa/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “roi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for roi is neighbouring look-alikes ("rr", "ru", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ʀwa/. Frequency #35,242 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rey.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for roi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rr", "ru", "Rx", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is roi, spelled R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Rey.
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 "roi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).