arpón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#65,872
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
arpón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento utilizado principalmente para la caza marina consiste en una varilla con punta de hierro, la que es impulsada para penetrar en el blanco. Es empleado para capturar ballenas y peces gran... Pronounced [aɾˈpõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arpón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾˈpõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arpón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾˈpõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,872 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for arpón in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 arpón, spelled A-R-P-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento utilizado principalmente para la caza marina consiste en una varilla con punta de hierro, la que es impulsada para penetrar en el blanco. Es empleado para capturar ballenas y peces grandes y en la caza submarina.
- 2Grapa (pieza de metal para sujetar).
- 3Veleta (flecha que muestra la dirección del viento).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #65,872 in Spanish
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