fútbol

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for fútbol is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfut̪β̞ol]. Corpus data places it at rank #766 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Deporte jugado con los pies cuyo objetivo es hacer avanzar una pelota a uno de los extremos del campo de juego e intentar ubicarla dentro de la meta contraria, acto que se conoce como gol.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fútbol, with forms such as "ffútbol", "ftúbol", and "fúbtol". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "futsal", 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 fútbol, spelled F-Ú-T-B-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.