faz
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,143
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
faz is aSpanishnoun. It means: En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca Pronounced [ˈfas]. Often confused with fe and fi.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for faz is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfas]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,143 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faz in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is faz, spelled F-A-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Frequency rank: #17,143 in Spanish
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