fai
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,830
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fai is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (el, ela, vostede) del presente de indicativo de facer. Pronounced [ˈfa̠j]. Often confused with fe and fi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfa̠j] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fai is 3 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfa̠j]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,830 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (el, ela, vostede) del presente de indicativo de facer.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fai in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fe", "fi", "fo", 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 fai, spelled F-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (el, ela, vostede) del presente de indicativo de facer.
Frequency rank: #40,830 in Spanish
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