faro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,227
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
faro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Torre costera que, gracias a una señal luminosa y acústica advierte a las embarcaciones de la proximidad de la misma. Pronounced [ˈfaɾo]. Often confused with fo and for.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for faro is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfaɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,227 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for faro, with forms such as "afro", "faor", and "farro". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fo", "for", "feo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 faro, spelled F-A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Torre costera que, gracias a una señal luminosa y acústica advierte a las embarcaciones de la proximidad de la misma.
- 2Por extensión, farol potente.
- 3Cualquiera de las luces que poseen los vehículos automotores para iluminar su camino.
- 4Figurativamente, principio o meta que guía la acción en algún aspecto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afro,faor,farro,ffaro,frao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faro
Misspelling Variants of "faro"
Frequency rank: #11,227 in Spanish
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