argón

/[aɾˈɣ̞õn]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,640

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

argón is aSpanishnoun. It means: El argón o argon es un elemento químico de número atómico 18 y símbolo Ar. Es el tercero de los gases nobles, incoloro e inerte como ellos, constituye en torno al 1% del aire. Pronounced [aɾˈɣ̞õn].

Key facts for argón
PropertyValue
Headwordargón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aɾˈɣ̞õn]
Letters5
Frequency rank#83,640
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of argón in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for argón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾˈɣ̞õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,640 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "El argón o argon es un elemento químico de número atómico 18 y símbolo Ar. Es el tercero de los gases nobles, incoloro e inerte como ellos, constituye en torno al 1% del aire.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for argón 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 argón, spelled A-R-G-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    El argón o argon es un elemento químico de número atómico 18 y símbolo Ar. Es el tercero de los gases nobles, incoloro e inerte como ellos, constituye en torno al 1% del aire.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #83,640 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "argón"?
"argón" is spelled A-R-G-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [aɾˈɣ̞õn].
What does "argón" mean?
As a noun, "argón" means: El argón o argon es un elemento químico de número atómico 18 y símbolo Ar. Es el tercero de los gases nobles, incoloro e inerte como ellos, constituye en torno al 1% del aire.
How do you pronounce "argón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "argón" is [aɾˈɣ̞õn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "argón" 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.