fox
/fɒks/
The verdict
“fox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,109) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,109
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Vulpes vulpes) Zorro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fox · fox · Spanish
fox · rank #5,109 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,109
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH Filipinas
Nearest frequency peer: Filipinas (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “fox”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- extranjeras
extranjeras
94,895 corpus weight
- fa
fa
94,894 corpus weight
- Filipinas
Filipinas
94,893 corpus weight
- fox
fox
94,892 corpus weight
- from
from
94,891 corpus weight
- fuertemente
fuertemente
94,890 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fox” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fox |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɒks/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fox”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fox is neighbouring look-alikes ("FP", "fue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /fɒks/. Frequency #5,109 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "(Vulpes vulpes) Zorro.".
fox doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FP", "fue", "fui", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is fox, spelled F-O-X.
Definition
- 1(Vulpes vulpes) Zorro.
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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