fever
/ˈfiː.və(r)/
The verdict
“fever” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,078 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,078
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fiebre₁, calentura₁.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fever · fever · Spanish
fever · rank #63,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,078
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH feu
Nearest frequency peer: feu (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “fever”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- feligresía
feligresía
36,927 corpus weight
- fermentar
fermentar
36,926 corpus weight
- festejaron
festejaron
36,925 corpus weight
- feu
feu
36,924 corpus weight
- fever
fever
36,923 corpus weight
- fibroso
fibroso
36,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fever” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fever |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfiː.və(r)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fever” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fever is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,078 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfiː.və(r)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fever in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is fever, spelled F-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fiebre₁, calentura₁.
- 2Fiebre₁, agitación₁, excitación₁.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“As Abramson explained, when we are sick, whether we have a fever or not, our metabolic rates skyrocket, and our bodies need more calories to support that high metabolic rate.”
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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