foul
[ˈfowl]
The verdict
“foul” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,092 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,092
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En el fútbol, infracción cometida por un jugador contra un rival, adrede o no, especialmente cuando el balón está en disputa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-foul · foul · Spanish
foul · rank #63,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,092
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fortificar
Nearest frequency peer: fortificar (-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 “foul”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- formadora
formadora
36,913 corpus weight
- formulando
formulando
36,912 corpus weight
- forradas
forradas
36,911 corpus weight
- fortificar
fortificar
36,910 corpus weight
- foul
foul
36,909 corpus weight
- fregado
fregado
36,907 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “foul” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foul |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfowl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “foul” en español
Rare enough to double-check
foul is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,092 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfowl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En el fútbol, infracción cometida por un jugador contra un rival, adrede o no, especialmente cuando el balón está en disputa.".
foul has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is foul, spelled F-O-U-L.
Definition
- 1En el fútbol, infracción cometida por un jugador contra un rival, adrede o no, especialmente cuando el balón está en disputa.
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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