fuente
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#788
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
fuente is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lugar donde sale agua de la tierra. Pronounced [ˈfwẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #788 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fuese and fuere.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfwẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fuente is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfwẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #788 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for fuente, with forms such as "feunte", "ffuente", and "fuenet". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "fuese", "fuere", "funde", 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 fuente, spelled F-U-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lugar donde sale agua de la tierra.
- 2Aparato que tiene un flujo de agua continuo y se utiliza con propositos de ornato en jardines y lugares públicos.
- 3Utensilio cóncavo que se usa para contener líquidos o algunos tipos de alimentos.
- 4Cantidad de alimento contenido en dicho utensilio.
- 5Origen, especialmente de información.
- 6Tipo de letra, un estilo, forma o modelo de tipografía.
- 7Dispositivo que entrega tensión o corriente continua.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: feunte,ffuente,fuenet,fuennte,fuentte,fuetne,funete,ufente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fuente
Misspelling Variants of "fuente"
Frequency rank: #788 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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