fas
"fas" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,454) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,454
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A border or fringe.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fas · fas · English
fas · rank #27,454 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,454
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH extinguish
Nearest frequency peer: extinguish (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “fas”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- evasive
evasive
72,549 corpus weight
- extinguish
extinguish
72,548 corpus weight
- fas
fas
72,547 corpus weight
- Fayetteville
Fayetteville
72,546 corpus weight
- federalist
federalist
72,544 corpus weight
- FEMA
FEMA
72,543 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “fas” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | fas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “fas”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fas is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "FL", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #27,454 among 2,507 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for fas in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "FL", "FM", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs. The correct English form is fas, spelled F-A-S.
Definition
- 1A border or fringe.
- 2A thing represented as being worthless.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not worth a fas
Etymology
From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).