fino
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,166
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fino is anSpanishadj. It means: De muy buena calidad o factura. Pronounced [ˈfino]. It ranks #7,166 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fo and fit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfino] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fino is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfino]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,166 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for fino, with forms such as "ffino", "finno", and "fion". 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, "fo", "fit", "fio", 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 fino, spelled F-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De muy buena calidad o factura.
- 2Muy delgado.
- 3Dícese de una persona refinada.
- 4Sutil.
- 5Suave.
- 6Sagaz.
- 7Agudo.
- 8Puro.
- 9Dicho del jerez: seco, blanco, con graduación entre 15 y 17 grados.
- 10Dicho de un buque: que debido a su traza puede cortar el agua con facilidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffino,finno,fion,fnio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fino
Misspelling Variants of "fino"
Frequency rank: #7,166 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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