fiesta
[ˈfjest̪a]
The verdict
“fiesta” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #893
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Día consagrado a actos religiosos. Día en que se celebran ceremonias religiosas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fiesta · fiesta · Spanish
fiesta · rank #893 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #893
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH entrada
Nearest frequency peer: entrada (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “fiesta”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- decisión
decisión
99,111 corpus weight
- encuentro
encuentro
99,110 corpus weight
- entrada
entrada
99,109 corpus weight
- fiesta
fiesta
99,108 corpus weight
- Francia
Francia
99,107 corpus weight
- Francisco
Francisco
99,106 corpus weight
What this shows “fiesta” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | fiesta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfjest̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “fiesta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fiesta (IPA [ˈfjest̪a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #893 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiesta, with forms such as "feista", "ffiesta", and "fiesat". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "first", "fresa", "fresca", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is fiesta, spelled F-I-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Día consagrado a actos religiosos. Día en que se celebran ceremonias religiosas.
- 2Día en que se celebra algún evento histórico y en el que permanecen cerradas las oficinas públicas.
- 3Reunión de personas para celebrar algún evento o simplemente para divertirse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feista
- ffiesta
- fiesat
- fiessta
- fiestta
- fietsa
- fiseta
- ifesta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiesta - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fiesta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).