fal
[ˈf̬ɑːl]
The verdict
“fal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,604) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,604
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación aspirada del sustantivo femenino pal ('pala').
Corpus desk
Index ES-fal · fal · Spanish
fal · rank #33,604 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,604
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH extinto
Nearest frequency peer: extinto (-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 “fal”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- explotada
explotada
66,401 corpus weight
- expresivo
expresivo
66,399 corpus weight
- extinto
extinto
66,398 corpus weight
- fal
fal
66,397 corpus weight
- favoritismo
favoritismo
66,396 corpus weight
- feudalismo
feudalismo
66,394 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fal” 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 | fal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈf̬ɑːl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fal”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fal is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈf̬ɑːl]. Frequency #33,604 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is fal, spelled F-A-L.
Definition
- 1Mutación aspirada del sustantivo femenino pal ('pala').
- 2Mutación aspirada del sustantivo masculino pal ('propósito').
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).