talon
/ˈtælən/noun
talon is spelled T-A-L-O-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, talon means “A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of talon is talons.
How many letters and syllables are in talon?
| Letters | 5: T-A-L-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 talon?
Talon appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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).
How do you pronounce talon?
- /ˈtælən/
Talon has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-talon.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with talon?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as talon.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tonal.
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 talon
- talons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does talon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
- 2
One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
- 3
A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
- 4
The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
- 5
The remaining stock of undealt cards.
- 6
A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Talon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hooked claw:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does talon come from?
From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Proto-Romance *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).