bandoneón
[bãn̪d̪oneˈõn]
The verdict
“bandoneón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #75,178 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,178
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrumento musical de viento de la familia de las armónicas de forma rectangular o hexagonal, provisto de botones en ambos lados y escala cromática. Es una variante del acordeón y se usa en la mús...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandoneón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bãn̪d̪oneˈõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bandoneón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bandoneón is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bãn̪d̪oneˈõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,178 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrumento musical de viento de la familia de las armónicas de forma rectangular o hexagonal, provisto de botones en ambos lados y escala cromática. Es una variante del acordeón y se usa en la mús...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bandoneón, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is bandoneón, spelled B-A-N-D-O-N-E-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de viento de la familia de las armónicas de forma rectangular o hexagonal, provisto de botones en ambos lados y escala cromática. Es una variante del acordeón y se usa en la música rioplatense como el tango y la milonga.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bandoneón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-N-D-O-N-E-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bãn̪d̪oneˈõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.