fail
/feɪl/
The verdict
“fail” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,476) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,476
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fracasar, fallar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fail · fail · Spanish
fail · rank #30,476 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,476
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH factibilidad
Nearest frequency peer: factibilidad (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “fail”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- explícitas
explícitas
69,528 corpus weight
- factibilidad
factibilidad
69,526 corpus weight
- fail
fail
69,525 corpus weight
- ferroviarios
ferroviarios
69,524 corpus weight
- festiva
festiva
69,523 corpus weight
- figure
figure
69,522 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fail” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | fail |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /feɪl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fail”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fail is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "fin", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /feɪl/. Frequency #30,476 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fail, with forms such as "afil", "faill", and "fali". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "fin", "fui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is fail, spelled F-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Fracasar, fallar.
- 2Reprobar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afil
- faill
- fali
- ffail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fail - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fail", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).