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maricon

noun

maricon is spelled M-A-R-I-C-O-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maricon means “An effeminate homosexual male in a Spanish-speaking region, especially Central America” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maricon is maricons or maricones.

How many letters and syllables are in maricon?

Letters7: M-A-R-I-C-O-N
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is maricon?

Maricon appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with maricon?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as maricon.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: marconi.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of maricon

  • maricons plural
  • maricones plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does maricon mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An effeminate homosexual male in a Spanish-speaking region, especially Central America.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does maricon come from?

Borrowing from Spanish maricón.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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