fio
[ˈfjo]
The verdict
“fio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,129) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,129
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de fiar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fio · fio · Spanish
fio · rank #33,129 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,129
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH financiadas
Nearest frequency peer: financiadas (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “fio”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- fight
fight
66,875 corpus weight
- fijaron
fijaron
66,874 corpus weight
- financiadas
financiadas
66,873 corpus weight
- fio
fio
66,872 corpus weight
- flacas
flacas
66,871 corpus weight
- flo
flo
66,870 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fio” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | fio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfjo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fio is neighbouring look-alikes ("fo", "FP", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈfjo]. Frequency #33,129 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de fiar.".
fio doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is fio, spelled F-I-O.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo 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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).