alforfón
Spanish, noun/alfoɾˈfon/
alforfón is spelled A-L-F-O-R-F-Ó-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 148,939th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alforfón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “buckwheat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Planta anual herbácea de la familia de las poligonáceas cultivada por sus granos para su consumo humano y…”.
What does alforfón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebuckwheat
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Planta anual herbácea de la familia de las poligonáceas cultivada por sus granos para su consumo humano y animal.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alforfón
- alforfones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alforfón?
- /alfoɾˈfon/
- [al.foɾˈfõn]
- [alfoɾˈfõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alforfón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alforfón in Spanish?
alforfón appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).