failed
/feɪld/
The verdict
“failed” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,859 among 18,759 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,859
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 18,759
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fallé, fallado, pasado simple y pasado participio del verbo fail.
Corpus desk
Index ES-failed · failed · Spanish
failed · rank #88,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,859
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Ezquerra
Nearest frequency peer: Ezquerra (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “failed”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- expósitos
expósitos
11,146 corpus weight
- Ezquerra
Ezquerra
11,144 corpus weight
- failed
failed
11,142 corpus weight
- fiaba
fiaba
11,137 corpus weight
- fidedignos
fidedignos
11,136 corpus weight
- figurantes
figurantes
11,135 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “failed” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | failed |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /feɪld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “failed” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
failed is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,859 among 18,759 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /feɪld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fallé, fallado, pasado simple y pasado participio del verbo fail.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for failed, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is failed, spelled F-A-I-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Fallé, fallado, pasado simple y pasado participio del verbo fail.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.