fía
[ˈfia]
The verdict
“fía” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,850) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,850
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de fiar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fia · fía · Spanish
fía · rank #40,850 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,850
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH frecuentar
Nearest frequency peer: frecuentar (-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 “fía”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- fono
fono
59,154 corpus weight
- fragatas
fragatas
59,153 corpus weight
- frecuentar
frecuentar
59,152 corpus weight
- fía
fía
59,151 corpus weight
- gastritis
gastritis
59,150 corpus weight
- Gazeta
Gazeta
59,148 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fía” 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 | fía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfia] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fía”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fía is neighbouring look-alikes ("fo", "FP", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈfia]. Frequency #40,850 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for fía in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fo", "FP", "fue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is fía, spelled F-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de fiar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de fiar.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).