football
/ˈfʊt.bɔːl/
The verdict
“football” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,374
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 18,759
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Balón de fútbol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | football |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfʊt.bɔːl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “football” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around football (IPA /ˈfʊt.bɔːl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,374 among 18,759 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for football, with forms such as "ffootball", "foobtall", and "footabll". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is football, spelled F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Balón de fútbol.
- 2Fútbol.
- 3Fútbol americano.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffootball
- foobtall
- footabll
- footbal
- footbball
- footblal
- foottball
- footvall
- fotball
- fotoball
- ofotball
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of football - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “football”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfʊt.bɔːl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.