furor
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,051
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
furor is aSpanishnoun. It means: Exaltación violenta del alma por extremada cólera. Pronounced [fuˈɾoɾ]. Often confused with fury and for.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fuˈɾoɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for furor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fuˈɾoɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,051 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for furor, with forms such as "ffuror", "fruor", and "fuorr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fury", "for", "für", 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 furor, spelled F-U-R-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exaltación violenta del alma por extremada cólera.
- 2Estado de suma actividad, de gran movimiento o agitación.
- 3La situación mas agitada y pronunciada en el estado de una cosa.
- 4Gusto o prurito excesivo por alguna cosa.
- 5Estro, numen, inspiración.
- 6Carácter particular y alarmante que adquiere el delirio en algunas enfermedades.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffuror,fruor,fuorr,furorr,furro,furror,ufror
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for furor
Misspelling Variants of "furor"
Frequency rank: #20,051 in Spanish
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