falso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,776
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
falso is anSpanishadj. It means: Que simula, imita o parece ser real, sin serlo. Pronounced [ˈfalso]. It ranks #2,776 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with FAO and fas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | falso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfalso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for falso is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfalso]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,776 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for falso, with forms such as "aflso", "fallso", and "falos". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FAO", "fas", "flo", 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 falso, spelled F-A-L-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que simula, imita o parece ser real, sin serlo.
- 2Contrario a la verdad, involuntaria o intencionalmente.
- 3Que engaña, que lleva a un engaño.
- 4Se dice de la persona que finge.
- 5Se dice de la persona que miente.
- 6Propio de la persona que finge o miente.
- 7Se dice del caballo poco fiable, que cocea o pone en peligro de forma inesperada a quien lo monta.
- 8Poco sociable, que no visita a sus amistades.
- 9Que carece de valor o coraje.
- 10Que no se esfuerza, que trabaja con desgano y falta de interés.
- 11Que no calza perfectamente en su sitio y puede ser movido.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aflso,fallso,falos,falsso,faslo,ffalso,flaso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for falso
Misspelling Variants of "falso"
Frequency rank: #2,776 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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