fajita
/fəˈhiːtə/
"fajita" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fajita” is uncommon English (frequency #87,270 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,270
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fajita · fajita · English
fajita · rank #87,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,270
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Falkner
Nearest frequency peer: Falkner (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “fajita”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- escargot
escargot
12,742 corpus weight
- ethology
ethology
12,740 corpus weight
- fajita
fajita
12,731 corpus weight
- Falkner
Falkner
12,730 corpus weight
- Faustian
Faustian
12,725 corpus weight
- ferritin
ferritin
12,721 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fajita” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fajita |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fəˈhiːtə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fajita” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fajita is uncommon English at frequency #87,270 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fəˈhiːtə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fajita in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From American Spanish fajita, diminutive of faja (“strip, band”). The correct English form is fajita, spelled F-A-J-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.
Etymology
From American Spanish fajita, diminutive of faja (“strip, band”).
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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