fárfara
[ˈfaɾfaɾa]
The verdict
“fárfara” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Tussilago) Planta herbácea de la familia de las compuestas, con bohordos de escamas coloridas y de uno a dos decímetros de altura, hojas radicales, grandes, denticuladas, tenues, tomentosas por el...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fárfara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaɾfaɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fárfara” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fárfara is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfaɾfaɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fárfara in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 fárfara, spelled F-Á-R-F-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Tussilago) Planta herbácea de la familia de las compuestas, con bohordos de escamas coloridas y de uno a dos decímetros de altura, hojas radicales, grandes, denticuladas, tenues, tomentosas por el envés, y que aparecen después que las flores, que son aisladas, terminales, amarillas y de muchos pétalos. El cocimiento de las hojas y flores se emplea como pectoral.
- 2(Urospermum picroides) Planta herbácea anual de hasta 50 cm de altura, con tallo erectos huecos, acostillados e híspidos, y generalmente ramificada en su parte distal. Las hojas caulinares basales, subrosetadas y subpecioladas, son oblongo-ovaladas, de 4-30 cm de largo por 1,5-8 cm de ancho, lirato-pinnatisectas, dentadas, subenteras o laciniadas. Las medias y superiores, amplexicaules y auriculadas. El involucro, de 1,5-2 cm y en el ápice de un pedúnculo de 5-15 cm (algo dilatado apicalmente), tiene 2 filas de 7-8 brácteas soldadas entre sí en su base (de tal manera que simulan una sola fila), estrechamente ovaladas y de ápice acuminado, subiguales, de color verde y márgenes escariosos, más o menos densamente híspidas, reflejas en la fructificación.
Synonyms
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Using “fárfara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-Á-R-F-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfaɾfaɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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