fas
/ˈfasː/
The verdict
“fas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,227) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,227
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cara, faz, haz, jeta, rostro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fas · fas · Spanish
fas · rank #27,227 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,227
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH festeja
Nearest frequency peer: festeja (+1 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “fas”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- experimenta…
experimentaron
72,777 corpus weight
- extraída
extraída
72,776 corpus weight
- fas
fas
72,774 corpus weight
- festeja
festeja
72,773 corpus weight
- festín
festín
72,772 corpus weight
- file
file
72,770 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fas” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | fas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfasː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fas”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fas is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈfasː/. Frequency #27,227 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Cara, faz, haz, jeta, rostro.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fas in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fe", "fi", "fo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is fas, spelled F-A-S.
Definition
- 1Cara, faz, haz, jeta, rostro.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).