fax
[ˈfaks]
The verdict
“fax” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #13,698 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #13,698
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sistema de comunicación que permite enviar y recibir información gráfica a través de la línea telefónica.
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 | fax |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fax” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fax is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfaks]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,698 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fax, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fe", "fi", "fo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is fax, spelled F-A-X.
Definition
- 1Sistema de comunicación que permite enviar y recibir información gráfica a través de la línea telefónica.
- 2Aparato conectado a una línea telefónica que sirve para enviar y recibir esa información.
- 3Mensaje que se envía o recibe mediante ese sistema.
This word in other languages
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 “fax”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-A-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfaks] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fe” - see the side-by-side comparison. fax vs fe
- 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.