af
/af/
The verdict
“af” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,246) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,246
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfermo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-af · af · Spanish
af · rank #20,246 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,246
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH adulterio
Nearest frequency peer: adulterio (-1 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “af”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- adeptos
adeptos
79,758 corpus weight
- admira
admira
79,757 corpus weight
- adulterio
adulterio
79,756 corpus weight
- af
af
79,755 corpus weight
- afectación
afectación
79,754 corpus weight
- agarré
agarré
79,753 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “af” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | af |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /af/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “af”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for af is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /af/. Frequency #20,246 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Enfermo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for af in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "al", "ah", "ay", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is af, spelled A-F.
Definition
- 1Enfermo.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.