abejón

/[aβ̞eˈxõn]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

abejón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Macho de la abeja maestra. Pronounced [aβ̞eˈxõn].

Key facts for abejón
PropertyValue
Headwordabejón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aβ̞eˈxõn]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

abejón is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for abejón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞eˈxõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abejón in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 abejón, spelled A-B-E-J-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Macho de la abeja maestra.
  2. 2
    Insecto himenóptero de dos a tres centímetros de largo, negro, cubierto de vello por encima, armado de un fuerte aguijón, y tiene un zumbido mucho más fuerte que el de la abeja.
  3. 3
    Juego entre tres sujetos, uno de los cuales, puesto en medio con las manos juntas delante de la boca, hace un ruido semejante al del abejón₂ para entretener así a los otros dos, procurando darles bofetadas y evitar las de ellos.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abejón"?
"abejón" is spelled A-B-E-J-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [aβ̞eˈxõn].
What does "abejón" mean?
As a noun, "abejón" means: Macho de la abeja maestra.
How do you pronounce "abejón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abejón" is [aβ̞eˈxõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abejón" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.