farola
[faˈɾola]
The verdict
“farola” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,558
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pieza de mobiliario urbano que se encarga de iluminar las calles y plazas. Existen muchos modelos con diversas variaciones, pero básicamente es un mástil con algún sistema de iluminación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-farola · farola · Spanish
farola · rank #46,558 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,558
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH falsear
Nearest frequency peer: falsear (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “farola”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- extrañeza
extrañeza
53,448 corpus weight
- facho
facho
53,447 corpus weight
- falsear
falsear
53,445 corpus weight
- farola
farola
53,443 corpus weight
- federados
federados
53,441 corpus weight
- felice
felice
53,439 corpus weight
What this shows “farola” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈɾola] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “farola”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around farola (IPA [faˈɾola]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,558 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pieza de mobiliario urbano que se encarga de iluminar las calles y plazas. Existen muchos modelos con diversas variaciones, pero básicamente es un mástil con algún sistema de iluminación.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for farola, with forms such as "afrola", "faorla", and "farloa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "farsa", "faros", "favela", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is farola, spelled F-A-R-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1Pieza de mobiliario urbano que se encarga de iluminar las calles y plazas. Existen muchos modelos con diversas variaciones, pero básicamente es un mástil con algún sistema de iluminación.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrola
- faorla
- farloa
- faroal
- farolla
- farrola
- ffarola
- fraola
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of farola - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "farola", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).