faringe
[faˈɾĩŋxe]
The verdict
“faringe” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #66,941 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,941
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tubo muscular, recubierto de una mucosa que atrapa las partículas que llegan desde la nariz, situado a continuación de la boca. Comunica con las fosas nasales, la laringe, la trompa de Eustaquio y ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faringe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈɾĩŋxe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faringe” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for faringe is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈɾĩŋxe]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,941 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tubo muscular, recubierto de una mucosa que atrapa las partículas que llegan desde la nariz, situado a continuación de la boca. Comunica con las fosas nasales, la laringe, la trompa de Eustaquio y ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for faringe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is faringe, spelled F-A-R-I-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tubo muscular, recubierto de una mucosa que atrapa las partículas que llegan desde la nariz, situado a continuación de la boca. Comunica con las fosas nasales, la laringe, la trompa de Eustaquio y el esófago. Se divide en nasofaringe o rinofaringe, orofaringe y laringofaringe.
This word in other languages
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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Using “faringe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-A-R-I-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [faˈɾĩŋxe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.