fascismo
[faˈsismo]
The verdict
“fascismo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,823 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,823
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ideología y movimiento político autoritario, que aboga por el control corporativo del Estado y la economía, el uso de la violencia para la supresión del disenso, y la supresión de las libertades in...
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 | fascismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈsismo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fascismo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fascismo is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈsismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,823 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fascismo, with forms such as "afscismo", "facsismo", and "fasccismo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fascista", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is fascismo, spelled F-A-S-C-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1Ideología y movimiento político autoritario, que aboga por el control corporativo del Estado y la economía, el uso de la violencia para la supresión del disenso, y la supresión de las libertades individuales; ejemplos de este tipo de régimen son la Italia de Mussolini, de donde proviene el término, o la España franquista.
- 2Por extensión, ideología y movimiento político de características autoritarias, violentas y chovinistas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afscismo,facsismo,fasccismo,fascimso,fascismmo,fascisom,fascissmo,fascsimo,fasicsmo,fasscismo,fassismo,ffascismo,fsacismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fascismo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “fascismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-A-S-C-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [faˈsismo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fascista” - see the side-by-side comparison. fascismo vs fascista
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.