ef
[eɸ]
The verdict
“ef” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,619) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,619
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Padre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ef · ef · Spanish
ef · rank #29,619 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,619
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH Echenique
Nearest frequency peer: Echenique (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ef”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- duraría
duraría
70,385 corpus weight
- durmiente
durmiente
70,384 corpus weight
- Echenique
Echenique
70,383 corpus weight
- ef
ef
70,382 corpus weight
- ejecutivas
ejecutivas
70,381 corpus weight
- ejerza
ejerza
70,380 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ef” against nearest ranked Spanish 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 | ef |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɸ] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #29,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “ef” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ef is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "él", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [eɸ]. Frequency #29,619 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Padre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ef, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "él", "ex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ef, spelled E-F.
Definition
- 1Padre.
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.