fam
[ˈfam]
The verdict
“fam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,871) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,871
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hambre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fam · fam · Spanish
fam · rank #24,871 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,871
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH faltaría
Nearest frequency peer: faltaría (-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 “fam”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Ezeiza
Ezeiza
75,133 corpus weight
- falls
falls
75,132 corpus weight
- faltaría
faltaría
75,131 corpus weight
- fam
fam
75,130 corpus weight
- favoreciendo
favoreciendo
75,129 corpus weight
- five
five
75,127 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fam” 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 | fam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfam] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fam”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fam is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈfam]. Frequency #24,871 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Hambre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fam in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fe", "fi", "fo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 fam, spelled F-A-M.
Definition
- 1Hambre.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).