fat
/fæt/
The verdict
“fat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,152) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,152
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grasa
Corpus desk
Index ES-fat · fat · Spanish
fat · rank #24,152 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,152
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH faciales
Nearest frequency peer: faciales (-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 “fat”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- examinando
examinando
75,854 corpus weight
- extendieron
extendieron
75,852 corpus weight
- faciales
faciales
75,850 corpus weight
- fat
fat
75,849 corpus weight
- fisco
fisco
75,847 corpus weight
- fomentan
fomentan
75,846 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fat” 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 | fat |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fæt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fat is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /fæt/. Frequency #24,152 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Grasa".
fat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fe", "fi", "fo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is fat, spelled F-A-T.
Definition
- 1Grasa
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).