soy
[ˈsoj]
The verdict
“soy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #134) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #134
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de ser.
Corpus desk
Index ES-soy · soy · Spanish
soy · rank #134 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #134
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH país
Nearest frequency peer: país (-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 “soy”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- decir
decir
99,870 corpus weight
- gobierno
gobierno
99,869 corpus weight
- país
país
99,868 corpus weight
- soy
soy
99,867 corpus weight
- todas
todas
99,866 corpus weight
- casa
casa
99,865 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “soy” 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 | soy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈsoj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “soy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for soy is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈsoj]. Frequency #134 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de ser.".
soy has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "st", "sy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 soy, spelled S-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de ser.
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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