fis
[fi]
The verdict
“fis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,094) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,094
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (je) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de faire.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fis · fis · Spanish
fis · rank #37,094 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,094
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH February
Nearest frequency peer: February (-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 “fis”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- extraídas
extraídas
62,911 corpus weight
- February
February
62,908 corpus weight
- fis
fis
62,907 corpus weight
- fisioterapia
fisioterapia
62,906 corpus weight
- formadores
formadores
62,905 corpus weight
- fragmentada
fragmentada
62,904 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fis” 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 | fis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fis is neighbouring look-alikes ("fo", "FP", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [fi]. Frequency #37,094 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for fis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is fis, spelled F-I-S.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (je) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de faire.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tu) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de faire.
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).