faz
[ˈfas]
The verdict
“faz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,143) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,143
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca
Corpus desk
Index ES-faz · faz · Spanish
faz · rank #17,143 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,143
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH falsificación
Nearest frequency peer: falsificación (-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 “faz”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- faceta
faceta
82,861 corpus weight
- fachadas
fachadas
82,860 corpus weight
- falsificaci…
falsificación
82,859 corpus weight
- faz
faz
82,858 corpus weight
- ferroviario
ferroviario
82,857 corpus weight
- finalista
finalista
82,856 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “faz” 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 | faz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfas] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “faz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for faz is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈfas]. Frequency #17,143 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faz, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is faz, spelled F-A-Z.
Definition
- 1En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca
- 2Superficie exterior de un poliedro o en general de un objeto sólido
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).