fez
[ˈfes]
The verdict
“fez” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,044) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,044
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tipo de gorro de fieltro con forma de cono truncado de cuya parte superior a menudo cuelga una borla
Corpus desk
Index ES-fez · fez · Spanish
fez · rank #26,044 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,044
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH feroces
Nearest frequency peer: feroces (-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 “fez”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- fang
fang
73,960 corpus weight
- feligreses
feligreses
73,959 corpus weight
- feroces
feroces
73,958 corpus weight
- fez
fez
73,957 corpus weight
- fiasco
fiasco
73,955 corpus weight
- filipina
filipina
73,954 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fez” 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 | fez |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfes] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fez”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fez is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈfes]. Frequency #26,044 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Tipo de gorro de fieltro con forma de cono truncado de cuya parte superior a menudo cuelga una borla".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fez, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is fez, spelled F-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Tipo de gorro de fieltro con forma de cono truncado de cuya parte superior a menudo cuelga una borla
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).