fir
/fɜː(ɹ)/
The verdict
“fir” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,265 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,265
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Abies spp.) Abeto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fir · fir · Spanish
fir · rank #59,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,265
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH filmaba
Nearest frequency peer: filmaba (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “fir”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- fermentado
fermentado
40,740 corpus weight
- fib
fib
40,739 corpus weight
- Filiberto
Filiberto
40,738 corpus weight
- filmaba
filmaba
40,737 corpus weight
- fir
fir
40,736 corpus weight
- fisk
fisk
40,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fir” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɜː(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fir” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fir is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,265 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɜː(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Abies spp.) Abeto.".
fir has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is fir, spelled F-I-R.
Definition
- 1(Abies spp.) Abeto.
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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