voy
\ˈboj\
The verdict
“voy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,860) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,860
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-voy · voy · French
voy · rank #48,860 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,860
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vosgien
Nearest frequency peer: vosgien (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « voy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Vigny
Vigny
51,144 corpus weight
- vilar
vilar
51,143 corpus weight
- vosgien
vosgien
51,142 corpus weight
- voy
voy
51,141 corpus weight
- véhiculées
véhiculées
51,140 corpus weight
- Vénétie
Vénétie
51,139 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « voy » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈboj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « voy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for voy is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈboj\. Frequency #48,860 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).".
Zero misspellings are on record for voy in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "VR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is voy, spelled V-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De Alto Cedro voy para Marcané Luego a Cueto voy para Mayarí.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).