voy
[ˈboj]
The verdict
“voy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #156) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #156
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” 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 ir o de irse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-voy · voy · Spanish
voy · rank #156 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #156
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH tres
Nearest frequency peer: tres (-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 “voy”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- toda
toda
99,847 corpus weight
- tres
tres
99,846 corpus weight
- voy
voy
99,845 corpus weight
- caso
caso
99,844 corpus weight
- días
días
99,843 corpus weight
- momento
momento
99,842 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “voy” 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 | voy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈboj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “voy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for voy is neighbouring look-alikes ("voz", "v", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈboj]. Frequency #156 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de ir o de irse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for voy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "v", "va", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is voy, spelled V-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de ir o de irse.
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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