abejón
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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abejón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Macho de la abeja maestra. Pronounced [aβ̞eˈxõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abejón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aβ̞eˈxõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Macho de la abeja maestra.
- 2Insecto 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.
- 3Juego 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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