fecha

/[ˈfet͡ʃa]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#658

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

fecha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Especificación de un día dentro de un calendario, tipicamente una fecha determina el año, el mes y el día dentro del mes. Pronounced [ˈfet͡ʃa]. It ranks #658 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with foca and feria.

Key facts for fecha
PropertyValue
Headwordfecha
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈfet͡ʃa]
Letters5
Frequency rank#658
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fecha in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for fecha is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfet͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #658 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Especificación de un día dentro de un calendario, tipicamente una fecha determina el año, el mes y el día dentro del mes.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fecha, with forms such as "efcha", "fceha", and "fecah". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "foca", "feria", "ficha", 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 fecha, spelled F-E-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Especificación de un día dentro de un calendario, tipicamente una fecha determina el año, el mes y el día dentro del mes.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: efcha,fceha,fecah,feccha,fechha,fehca,ffecha

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fecha

Misspelling Variants of "fecha"

efcha5fceha5fecah5feccha6fechha6fehca5ffecha6
Misspelling Variants of "fecha"

Frequency rank: #658 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fecha"?
"fecha" is spelled F-E-C-H-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈfet͡ʃa].
What does "fecha" mean?
As a noun, "fecha" means: Especificación de un día dentro de un calendario, tipicamente una fecha determina el año, el mes y el día dentro del mes.
What words are commonly confused with "fecha"?
"fecha" is commonly confused with "foca", "feria", "ficha". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fecha"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fecha" is [ˈfet͡ʃa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fecha" come from?
"fecha" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.