fonda
"fonda" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fonda” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,660
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fonda · fonda · English
fonda · rank #29,660 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,660
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH foiled
Nearest frequency peer: foiled (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “fonda”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- flatten
flatten
70,344 corpus weight
- foiled
foiled
70,342 corpus weight
- fonda
fonda
70,341 corpus weight
- forester
forester
70,340 corpus weight
- fragility
fragility
70,339 corpus weight
- frick
frick
70,338 corpus weight
What this shows “fonda” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | fonda |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fonda”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fonda, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,660 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fonda, with forms such as "ffonda", "fnoda", and "fodna". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "food", "fund", "ford", 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 Spanish fonda, from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq, “inn, hotel; manor”), from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + the combining form of δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to receive”) + -εῖον (-eîon, “-ium: forming building names”). Do… The correct English form is fonda, spelled F-O-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fonda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nothing was ever stolen in the Hotel Montana. In other fondas, yes. Not here.
Etymology
From Spanish fonda, from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq, “inn, hotel; manor”), from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + the combining form of δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to receive”) + -εῖον (-eîon, “-ium: forming building names”). Doublet of fonduk and fondaco.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffonda
- fnoda
- fodna
- fonad
- fondda
- fonnda
- ofnda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fonda - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fonda", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).