facebook

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for facebook is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfejsβ̞uk]. Corpus data places it at rank #877 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cualquier perfil generado por una persona en la red social homónima.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for facebook, with forms such as "afcebook", "facbeook", and "faccebook". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 facebook, spelled F-A-C-E-B-O-O-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.