fome
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,128
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fome is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no provoca gracia. Pronounced [ˈfome]. Often confused with fue and for.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fome |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfome] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fome is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfome]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,128 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fome, with forms such as "ffome", "fmoe", and "foem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fue", "for", "fox", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is fome, spelled F-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no provoca gracia.
- 2Que no provoca interés.
- 3Que no ofrece dificultad.
- 4Dicho de una persona: Aburrida, que nada le causa gracia.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffome,fmoe,foem,fomme,ofme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fome
Misspelling Variants of "fome"
Frequency rank: #38,128 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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