formica
[foɾˈmika]
The verdict
“formica” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,899 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,899
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lámina de papel plastificado, resistente al calor, usada para proteger maderas o cualquier superficie.
Corpus desk
Index ES-formica · formica · Spanish
formica · rank #84,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,899
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH forastera
Nearest frequency peer: forastera (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “formica”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- flipado
flipado
15,105 corpus weight
- fonológico
fonológico
15,104 corpus weight
- forastera
forastera
15,103 corpus weight
- formica
formica
15,102 corpus weight
- forth
forth
15,101 corpus weight
- fractales
fractales
15,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “formica” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [foɾˈmika] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “formica” en español
Rare enough to double-check
formica is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,899 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [foɾˈmika]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lámina de papel plastificado, resistente al calor, usada para proteger maderas o cualquier superficie.".
formica has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is formica, spelled F-O-R-M-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Lámina de papel plastificado, resistente al calor, usada para proteger maderas o cualquier superficie.
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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