FEC
"fec" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“FEC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,647) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,647
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Federal Election Commission.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fec · FEC · English
FEC · rank #33,647 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,647
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Farrar
Nearest frequency peer: Farrar (-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 “FEC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- expeditiona…
expeditionary
66,358 corpus weight
- Falk
Falk
66,357 corpus weight
- Farrar
Farrar
66,355 corpus weight
- FEC
FEC
66,354 corpus weight
- Finns
Finns
66,352 corpus weight
- firefight
firefight
66,351 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “FEC” 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 | FEC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “FEC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FEC is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "FL", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #33,647 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of Federal Election Commission.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for FEC in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is FEC, spelled F-E-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Federal Election Commission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FEC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If the allegations highlighted in the complaint were to be proved, either to the FEC or in court, it would strike another political blow against a campaign and presidency that has been beset by ethics violations and accusations of corruption at its highest levels.
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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