fra
[ˈfɾa]
The verdict
“fra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,703) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,703
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fray (antes de un nombre propio).
Corpus desk
Index ES-fra · fra · Spanish
fra · rank #22,703 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,703
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fotógrafa
Nearest frequency peer: fotógrafa (-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 “fra”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- filmando
filmando
77,301 corpus weight
- filosóficas
filosóficas
77,300 corpus weight
- fotógrafa
fotógrafa
77,299 corpus weight
- fra
fra
77,298 corpus weight
- fragancia
fragancia
77,297 corpus weight
- franqueza
franqueza
77,296 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fra” 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 | fra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɾa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fra”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fra is neighbouring look-alikes ("fue", "fui", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈfɾa]. Frequency #22,703 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fray (antes de un nombre propio).".
fra has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fue", "fui", "fry", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is fra, spelled F-R-A.
Definition
- 1Fray (antes de un nombre propio).
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).