apagón
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,276
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
apagón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Corte temporal, súbito e inesperado del suministro de energía eléctrica. Pronounced [apaˈɣ̞õn]. Often confused with apego and Aragón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apagón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apaˈɣ̞õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apagón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apaˈɣ̞õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,276 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for apagón, with forms such as "aapgón", "apaggón", and "apagnó". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "apego", "Aragón", "ataron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 apagón, spelled A-P-A-G-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corte temporal, súbito e inesperado del suministro de energía eléctrica.
- 2Por extensión, interrupción de cualquier servicio público eléctrico o electrónico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aapgón,apaggón,apagnó,apagónn,apaógn,apgaón,appagón,paagón
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Misspelling Variants of "apagón"
Frequency rank: #15,276 in Spanish
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