few
/fju/
The verdict
“few” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,929 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,929
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pocos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-few · few · Spanish
few · rank #52,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,929
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH Felisa
Nearest frequency peer: Felisa (-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 “few”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- faltarán
faltarán
47,076 corpus weight
- Felisa
Felisa
47,073 corpus weight
- few
few
47,072 corpus weight
- fideicomisos
fideicomisos
47,071 corpus weight
- fingía
fingía
47,069 corpus weight
- fisión
fisión
47,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “few” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | few |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /fju/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #52,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “few” en español
Rare enough to double-check
few is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,929 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /fju/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pocos.".
Zero misspellings are on record for few in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is few, spelled F-E-W.
Definition
- 1Pocos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how few appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”.
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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