barbón
[baɾˈβ̞õn]
The verdict
“barbón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,733 among 24,339 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,733
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 24,339
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Tragopogon porrifolius L.) Planta bienal de la familia de las Compuestas, nativa de la Europa mediterránea. Tiene flores color púrpura muy vistosas. Sus raíces tienen una forma cónica y son de col...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɾˈβ̞õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barbón” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
barbón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,733 among 24,339 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [baɾˈβ̞õn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for barbón in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is barbón, spelled B-A-R-B-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1(Tragopogon porrifolius L.) Planta bienal de la familia de las Compuestas, nativa de la Europa mediterránea. Tiene flores color púrpura muy vistosas. Sus raíces tienen una forma cónica y son de color amarillo blancuzco, miden unos 15 cm de largo y dos o tres de grueso. Como hortaliza sus hojas se consumen crudas en ensaladas, fritas y guisadas de diversas formas, las raíces se consumen cocidas. En medicina natural la decocción sirve contra la gota y el reumatismo.
- 2Hombre barbado.
- 3Entre los cartujos, religioso lego, porque se deja crecer la barba.
- 4Macho cabrío.
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 “barbón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-R-B-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.