fea
[ˈfea]
The verdict
“fea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,731) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,731
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de feo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fea · fea · Spanish
fea · rank #5,731 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,731
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fieles
Nearest frequency peer: fieles (+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 “fea”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- expediente
expediente
94,273 corpus weight
- exportación
exportación
94,272 corpus weight
- fea
fea
94,270 corpus weight
- fieles
fieles
94,269 corpus weight
- formando
formando
94,268 corpus weight
- fortalecer
fortalecer
94,267 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fea” 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 | fea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈfea] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fea”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fea is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈfea]. Frequency #5,731 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de feo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fea in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "fo", "FP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is fea, spelled F-E-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de feo.
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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