Faust
[faust]
The verdict
“Faust” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,996 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,996
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-faust · Faust · Spanish
Faust · rank #81,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,996
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fault
Nearest frequency peer: fault (-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 “Faust”
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 “Faust” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Faust |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [faust] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Faust” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Faust is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,996 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [faust]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Faust in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Faust, spelled F-A-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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