joy
/dʒɔɪ/
The verdict
“joy” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #10,741) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,741
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alegria
Corpus desk
Index PT-joy · joy · Portuguese
joy · rank #10,741 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,741
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH lenha
Nearest frequency peer: lenha (+2 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “joy”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- head
head
89,266 corpus weight
- hulk
hulk
89,265 corpus weight
- internamente
internamente
89,263 corpus weight
- joy
joy
89,260 corpus weight
- lenha
lenha
89,258 corpus weight
- logotipo
logotipo
89,255 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “joy” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | joy |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʒɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “joy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for joy is neighbouring look-alikes ("July", "já", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /dʒɔɪ/. Frequency #10,741 among 196 “J” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for joy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "July", "já", "jo", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is joy, spelled J-O-Y.
Definition
- 1alegria
- 2sucesso; boa sorte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how joy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a child's joy on Christmas morning
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).