fagot
[faˈɣ̞ot̪]
The verdict
“fagot” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,099 among 18,759 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,099
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 18,759
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrumento musical de viento, de tubo cónico de madera y lengüeta doble. Con una longitud de alrededor de metro y medio, es el más grave de los instrumentos de la familia del oboe, con un rango to...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fagot |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈɣ̞ot̪] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fagot” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fagot is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,099 among 18,759 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [faˈɣ̞ot̪]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fagot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Spanish form is fagot, spelled F-A-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de viento, de tubo cónico de madera y lengüeta doble. Con una longitud de alrededor de metro y medio, es el más grave de los instrumentos de la familia del oboe, con un rango tonal de tres octavas y media.
- 2Ejecutante de este instrumento.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “fagot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-A-G-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.