fuego
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#851
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
fuego is aSpanishnoun. It means: Oxidación rápida y violenta de un material combustible, que libera calor y luz. Pronounced [ˈfweɣ̞o]. It ranks #851 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fuga and fumo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfweɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fuego is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfweɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #851 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for fuego, with forms such as "feugo", "ffuego", and "fueggo". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "fuga", "fumo", "fuel", 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 fuego, spelled F-U-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oxidación rápida y violenta de un material combustible, que libera calor y luz.
- 2Material sometido a esta oxidación.
- 3Por extensión, luz y calor que esta libera.
- 4En particular, pluma de gas incandescente o plasma que es su huella visible, y que los antiguos consideraban un elemento básico.
- 5En particular, fuego₁ que destruye accidentalmente algo.
- 6Dispositivo para canalizar el gas en una cocina.
- 7Por extensión, energía moral o anímica impresa por alguna pasión.
- 8Por extensión, dedicación o empeño que se aplica a una acción.
- 9Por extensión, aumento patológico de la temperatura corporal.
- 10Grupo de personas que viven en un mismo sitio y comparten los gastos y labores de la administración doméstica.
- 11Instrumento para cauterizar.
- 12Acción y efecto de disparar un arma de fuego.
- 13Flanco por el que se ataca o puede atacar.
- 14elemento que incluye los signos de Aries, Leo y Sagitario.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: feugo,ffuego,fueggo,fueog,fugeo,ufego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fuego
Misspelling Variants of "fuego"
Frequency rank: #851 in Spanish
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