fusil

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The Spanish entry for fusil is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fuˈsil]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,146 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arma de fuego portátil con un cañón largo y que usa balas como munición. Es el arma más usada por la infantería de los ejércitos.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fusil, with forms such as "ffusil", "fsuil", and "fucil". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "fuste", "fusión", "futsal", 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 fusil, spelled F-U-S-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.