fault
/fɔːlt/
The verdict
“fault” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,995 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,995
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Defecto, imperfección.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fault · fault · Spanish
fault · rank #81,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,995
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH Faust
Nearest frequency peer: Faust (+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 “fault”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- fanfic
fanfic
18,009 corpus weight
- fault
fault
18,006 corpus weight
- Faust
Faust
18,005 corpus weight
- fechoría
fechoría
18,004 corpus weight
- femen
femen
18,003 corpus weight
- fenol
fenol
18,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fault” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fault |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɔːlt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fault” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fault is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,995 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɔːlt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
fault doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is fault, spelled F-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Defecto, imperfección.
- 2Falla.
- 3Falta.
- 4Culpa, (responsabilidad de una falla, falta, omisión, etc)
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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