farol
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,653
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
farol is aSpanishnoun. It means: Especie de caja formada de vidrios o de otra materia trasparente, en que se pone la luz, para que alumbre y no se apague con el aire. Pronounced [faˈɾol]. Often confused with foro and from.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farol |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈɾol] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for farol is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈɾol]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,653 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for farol, with forms such as "afrol", "faorl", and "farlo". 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, "foro", "from", "faso", 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 farol, spelled F-A-R-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Especie de caja formada de vidrios o de otra materia trasparente, en que se pone la luz, para que alumbre y no se apague con el aire.
- 2Cazoleta formada de aros de hierro, en que se ponen las teas para las luminarias o para alumbrarse.
- 3Farola de una única luz.
- 4Mentira engreída.
- 5Jugada o envite falso hecho para deslumbrar o desorientar.
- 6Funda de papel que llevan los paquetes de picadura de tabaco.
- 7Persona arrogante, que aparenta más de lo que es.
- 8Lance de capa a la verónica, en que el torero, después de echar la capa al toro, la pasa en redondo sobre su cabeza y la coloca en sus hombros.
- 9Ojo.
- 10Cantidad de bebida alcohólica bebida en exceso.
- 11Vaso grande de whisky.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afrol,faorl,farlo,faroll,farrol,ffarol,fraol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for farol
Misspelling Variants of "farol"
Frequency rank: #29,653 in Spanish
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