joi
/'jo.i/
The verdict
“joi” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,094 among 196 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,094
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do imperfeito do indicativo do verbo juoda
Corpus desk
Index PT-joi · joi · Portuguese
joi · rank #71,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,094
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH islamofobia
Nearest frequency peer: islamofobia (-12 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “joi”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- hive
hive
28,955 corpus weight
- islamofobia
islamofobia
28,919 corpus weight
- joi
joi
28,907 corpus weight
- lombriga
lombriga
28,878 corpus weight
- lufada
lufada
28,875 corpus weight
- Macedonia
Macedonia
28,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “joi” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /'jo.i/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “joi” em português
Rare enough to double-check
joi is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,094 among 196 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /'jo.i/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "terceira pessoa do singular do imperfeito do indicativo do verbo juoda".
joi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is joi, spelled J-O-I.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do imperfeito do indicativo do verbo juoda
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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