fomento
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,531
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
fomento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estímulo, ánimo, impulso. Pronounced [foˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #6,531 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fomenta and fomentar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fomento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [foˈmẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fomento is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [foˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,531 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fomento, with forms such as "ffomento", "fmoento", and "foemnto". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fomenta", "fomentar", "fomentan", 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 fomento, spelled F-O-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estímulo, ánimo, impulso.
- 2Acción administrativa para promover un resultado de utilidad.
- 3Paño mojado que se aplica sobre la piel con fines medicinales, usualmente acompañado de calor.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffomento,fmoento,foemnto,fomennto,fomenot,fomentto,fometno,fommento,fomneto,ofmento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fomento
Misspelling Variants of "fomento"
Frequency rank: #6,531 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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