ficha
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,062
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ficha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza pequeña, cilíndrica y chata similar a una moneda que tiene valor dentro de un circuito cerrado, como por ejemplo, un casino, un lavedero de autos, una sala de juegos, etc. Pronounced [ˈfit͡ʃa]. It ranks #6,062 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fila and fifa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ficha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfit͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ficha is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfit͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,062 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ficha, with forms such as "fciha", "fficha", and "ficah". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fila", "fifa", "fija", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ficha, spelled F-I-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza pequeña, cilíndrica y chata similar a una moneda que tiene valor dentro de un circuito cerrado, como por ejemplo, un casino, un lavedero de autos, una sala de juegos, etc.
- 2Por extensión, piezas pequeñas y chatas que se utilizan en diversos juegos de mesa.
- 3Documento técnico en donde están tabuladas las principales características mensurables del objeto sobre el que trata.
- 4Por extensión, documento que guarda una institución con datos personales de algún individuo, a veces con antecedentes relevantes.
- 5Persona en la que no se puede confiar o que tiene intenciones poco transparentes.
- 6Moneda.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fciha,fficha,ficah,ficcha,fichha,fihca,ifcha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ficha
Misspelling Variants of "ficha"
Frequency rank: #6,062 in Spanish
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