fo
[ˈfo]
The verdict
“fo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,044) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,044
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expresión usada al percibir mal olor o sabor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fo · fo · Spanish
fo · rank #20,044 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,044
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH Florence
Nearest frequency peer: Florence (-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 “fo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- filmes
filmes
79,960 corpus weight
- fingiendo
fingiendo
79,959 corpus weight
- Florence
Florence
79,958 corpus weight
- fo
fo
79,957 corpus weight
- focus
focus
79,956 corpus weight
- forros
forros
79,955 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fo” 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 | fo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈfo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fo is neighbouring look-alikes ("FP", "fue", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈfo]. Frequency #20,044 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Expresión usada al percibir mal olor o sabor.".
fo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FP", "fue", "fui", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is fo, spelled F-O.
Definition
- 1Expresión usada al percibir mal olor o sabor.
Synonyms
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.