fix
/fɪks/
The verdict
“fix” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,843) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,843
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fijar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fix · fix · Spanish
fix · rank #40,843 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,843
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fisiológicos
Nearest frequency peer: fisiológicos (-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 “fix”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- filantropía
filantropía
59,161 corpus weight
- fingen
fingen
59,160 corpus weight
- fisiológicos
fisiológicos
59,159 corpus weight
- fix
fix
59,158 corpus weight
- folclórica
folclórica
59,156 corpus weight
- folklórica
folklórica
59,155 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fix” 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 | fix |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɪks/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fix”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fix is neighbouring look-alikes ("fo", "FP", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /fɪks/. Frequency #40,843 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for fix in our 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is fix, spelled F-I-X.
Definition
- 1Fijar.
- 2Reparar.
- 3Preparar (especialmente comidas).
- 4Castrar un animal doméstico.
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).