fábula
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,162
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
fábula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rumor, hablilla. Pronounced [ˈfaβ̞ula]. Often confused with falla and fauna.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fábula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaβ̞ula] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fábula is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfaβ̞ula]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,162 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fábula, with forms such as "fbáula", "ffábula", and "fábbula". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "falla", "fauna", "favela", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is fábula, spelled F-Á-B-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rumor, hablilla.
- 2Relación falsa, mentirosa, de pura invención, destituída de todo fundamento.
- 3Ficción artificiosa con que se encubre o disimula una verdad.
- 4Obra en que se narra un suceso o se representa una acción inventados para deleitar.
- 5Composición literaria, generalmente en verso, en que por medio de una ficción alegórica y de la representación de personas humanas y de personificaciones de seres irracionales, inanimados o abstractos, se da una enseñanza útil o moral.
- 6En los poémas épico y dramático y en cualquier otro análogo, serie y contexto de los incidentes de que se compone la acción, y de los medios por que se desarrolla.
- 7Mitología, cualquiera de las ficciones de la mitología.
- 8Objeto de murmuración irrisoria o despreciativa.
- 9Serie de dibujos animados proyectados en cine o transmitidos por televisión, ya sea cartoon, comic o anime.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fbáula,ffábula,fábbula,fáblua,fábual,fábulla,fáubla,fávula,áfbula
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fábula
Misspelling Variants of "fábula"
Frequency rank: #24,162 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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