frente
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#319
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
frente is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte superior de la cara, comprendida entre una y otra sien, y desde encima de los ojos hasta que empieza la vuelta del cráneo. Pronounced [ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #319 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with front and fuerte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for frente is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #319 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for frente, with forms such as "fernte", "ffrente", and "frenet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "front", "fuerte", "fuente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is frente, spelled F-R-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte superior de la cara, comprendida entre una y otra sien, y desde encima de los ojos hasta que empieza la vuelta del cráneo.
- 2Semblante, cara.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fernte,ffrente,frenet,frennte,frentte,fretne,frnete,frrente,rfente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frente
Misspelling Variants of "frente"
Frequency rank: #319 in Spanish
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