feo
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,556
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
feo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que carece de belleza o hermosura. Pronounced [ˈfeo]. It ranks #3,556 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fi and fo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfeo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for feo is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfeo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,556 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for feo 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, "fi", "fo", "FP", 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 feo, spelled F-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que carece de belleza o hermosura.
- 2De aspecto inadmisible, que causa mala impresión.
- 3Que causa horror o aversión.
- 4En los juegos de naipes, carta que no da buen juego.;5: De una manera sumamente despiadada, cruel o desagradable.
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Frequency rank: #3,556 in Spanish
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