fed
/fɛd/
The verdict
“fed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,409) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,409
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado simple del verbo (to) feed.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fed · fed · Spanish
fed · rank #19,409 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,409
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH falange
Nearest frequency peer: falange (-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 “fed”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- extrañamente
extrañamente
80,595 corpus weight
- faena
faena
80,594 corpus weight
- falange
falange
80,593 corpus weight
- fed
fed
80,592 corpus weight
- fiables
fiables
80,591 corpus weight
- ficticio
ficticio
80,590 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fed” 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 | fed |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɛd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fed”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fed is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "fo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /fɛd/. Frequency #19,409 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fed, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "fo", "FP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is fed, spelled F-E-D.
Definition
- 1Pasado simple del verbo (to) feed.
- 2Participio pasado del verbo (to) feed.
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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