fiestas

/[ˈfjest̪as]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,026

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

fiestas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sucesión de varios días de fiesta. Pronounced [ˈfjest̪as]. It ranks #2,026 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fresas and frescas.

Key facts for fiestas
PropertyValue
Headwordfiestas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈfjest̪as]
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,026
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fiestas in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for fiestas is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfjest̪as]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,026 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sucesión de varios días de fiesta.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fiestas, with forms such as "feistas", "ffiestas", and "fiesats". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fresas", "frescas", "fiesta", 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 fiestas, spelled F-I-E-S-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sucesión de varios días de fiesta.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: feistas,ffiestas,fiesats,fiesstas,fiestass,fiestsa,fiesttas,fietsas,fisetas,ifestas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fiestas

Misspelling Variants of "fiestas"

feistas7ffiestas8fiesats7fiesstas8fiestass8fiestsa7fiesttas8fietsas7
Misspelling Variants of "fiestas"

Frequency rank: #2,026 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fiestas"?
"fiestas" is spelled F-I-E-S-T-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈfjest̪as].
What does "fiestas" mean?
As a noun, "fiestas" means: Sucesión de varios días de fiesta.
What words are commonly confused with "fiestas"?
"fiestas" is commonly confused with "fresas", "frescas", "fiesta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fiestas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fiestas" is [ˈfjest̪as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fiestas" come from?
"fiestas" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.