fax
[ˈfaks]
The verdict
“fax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,698) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,698
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sistema de comunicación que permite enviar y recibir información gráfica a través de la línea telefónica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fax · fax · Spanish
fax · rank #13,698 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,698
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fertilidad
Nearest frequency peer: fertilidad (+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 “fax”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- exigente
exigente
86,306 corpus weight
- expulsados
expulsados
86,305 corpus weight
- fax
fax
86,303 corpus weight
- fertilidad
fertilidad
86,302 corpus weight
- feto
feto
86,301 corpus weight
- fluye
fluye
86,300 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fax” 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 | 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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fax”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fax is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈfaks]. Frequency #13,698 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
enviar un documento por fax
El técnico arregló el fax.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).