fonda
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,506
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fonda is aSpanishnoun. It means: Establecimiento comercial antiguo o modesto destinado al hospedaje de viajeros y el expendio de bebida y comida para consumir en las propias instalaciones. Pronounced [ˈfõn̪d̪a]. Often confused with ford and fosa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfõn̪d̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fonda is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfõn̪d̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,506 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fonda, with forms such as "ffonda", "fnoda", and "fodna". 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, "ford", "fosa", "food", 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 fonda, spelled F-O-N-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Establecimiento comercial antiguo o modesto destinado al hospedaje de viajeros y el expendio de bebida y comida para consumir en las propias instalaciones.
- 2Restaurante modesto que ofrece comida sencilla.
- 3Dependencias destinadas a la preparación y servicio de comida en un buque mercante.
- 4Establecimiento provisorio que expende bebida y comida durante las fiestas populares.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffonda,fnoda,fodna,fonad,fondda,fonnda,ofnda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fonda
Misspelling Variants of "fonda"
Frequency rank: #24,506 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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