FBI
[ˈfβ̞i]
The verdict
“FBI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,456) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,456
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sigla de Federal Bureau of Investigation, término del inglés que traduce como Oficina Federal de Investigación (agencia de investigación criminal de los Estados Unidos de América).
Corpus desk
Index ES-fbi · FBI · Spanish
FBI · rank #9,456 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,456
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH favorece
Nearest frequency peer: favorece (-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 “FBI”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- existan
existan
90,548 corpus weight
- extendió
extendió
90,547 corpus weight
- favorece
favorece
90,546 corpus weight
- FBI
FBI
90,545 corpus weight
- finde
finde
90,544 corpus weight
- flecha
flecha
90,543 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “FBI” 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 | FBI |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈfβ̞i] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “FBI”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FBI is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈfβ̞i]. Frequency #9,456 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Sigla de Federal Bureau of Investigation, término del inglés que traduce como Oficina Federal de Investigación (agencia de investigación criminal de los Estados Unidos de América).".
Zero misspellings are on record for FBI in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is FBI, spelled F-B-I.
Definition
- 1Sigla de Federal Bureau of Investigation, término del inglés que traduce como Oficina Federal de Investigación (agencia de investigación criminal de los Estados Unidos de América).
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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