farkas
/ˈfɒrkɒʃ/
The verdict
“farkas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,330 among 18,759 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,330
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 18,759
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Canis lupus) Lobo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farkas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɒrkɒʃ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “farkas” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
farkas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,330 among 18,759 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɒrkɒʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Canis lupus) Lobo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for farkas, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 farkas, spelled F-A-R-K-A-S.
Definition
- 1(Canis lupus) Lobo
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 “farkas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-A-R-K-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfɒrkɒʃ/ (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.