fauces
[ˈfawses]
The verdict
“fauces” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,603 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,603
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte posterior de la boca, entrada del esófago.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fauces · fauces · Spanish
fauces · rank #51,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,603
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH felicitando
Nearest frequency peer: felicitando (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “fauces”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- fanáticas
fanáticas
48,401 corpus weight
- fastidiosa
fastidiosa
48,400 corpus weight
- fauces
fauces
48,398 corpus weight
- felicitando
felicitando
48,397 corpus weight
- fijaste
fijaste
48,396 corpus weight
- finura
finura
48,395 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fauces” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fauces |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfawses] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fauces” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fauces is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,603 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfawses]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parte posterior de la boca, entrada del esófago.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fauces, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is fauces, spelled F-A-U-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Parte posterior de la boca, entrada del esófago.
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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