fire
[ˈfiːɔ]
The verdict
“fire” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,250
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuatro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fire · fire · Spanish
fire · rank #13,250 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,250
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fiable
Nearest frequency peer: fiable (-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 “fire”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Facu
Facu
86,754 corpus weight
- festejar
festejar
86,753 corpus weight
- fiable
fiable
86,752 corpus weight
- fire
fire
86,751 corpus weight
- flamenco
flamenco
86,750 corpus weight
- frito
frito
86,749 corpus weight
What this shows “fire” 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 | fire |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [ˈfiːɔ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “fire”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around fire (IPA [ˈfiːɔ]), anumeral. Corpus frequency is #13,250 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cuatro.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fire, with forms such as "ffire", "fier", and "firre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fue", "for", "fit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is fire, spelled F-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Cuatro.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffire
- fier
- firre
- frie
- ifre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fire - 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 "fire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).