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
- 18,759
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de fiar.
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) |
Where “fía” sits in Spanish frequency
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 18,759 “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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Using “fía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fo” - see the side-by-side comparison. fía vs fo
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.