fan
[ˈfãn]
The verdict
“fan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,601) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,601
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que siente gusto y entusiasmo por algo, en particular por un cantante o deportista.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fan · fan · Spanish
fan · rank #4,601 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,601
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH existía
Nearest frequency peer: existía (-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 “fan”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- encontrarse
encontrarse
95,403 corpus weight
- estadística
estadística
95,402 corpus weight
- existía
existía
95,401 corpus weight
- fan
fan
95,400 corpus weight
- fiebre
fiebre
95,399 corpus weight
- fiscalía
fiscalía
95,398 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fan” 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 | fan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfãn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fan”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fan is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈfãn]. Frequency #4,601 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Persona que siente gusto y entusiasmo por algo, en particular por un cantante o deportista.".
fan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Spanish form is fan, spelled F-A-N.
Definition
- 1Persona que siente gusto y entusiasmo por algo, en particular por un cantante o deportista.
Synonyms
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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