blasón
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,369
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
blasón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arte de explicar y describir los escudos de armas de cada linaje, ciudad o persona. Pronounced [blaˈsõn]. Often confused with bolsón and Blas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blasón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [blaˈsõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for blasón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [blaˈsõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,369 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for blasón, with forms such as "balsón", "bblasón", and "blasnó". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bolsón", "Blas", "baso", 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 blasón, spelled B-L-A-S-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arte de explicar y describir los escudos de armas de cada linaje, ciudad o persona.
- 2Cada figura, señal o pieza de las que se ponen en un escudo.
- 3Descripción formal de los distintivos que identifican a una persona, familia o institución, derivados de los que antiguamente llevaban los caballeros en sus armas y atavíos.
- 4Por extensión, conjunto de convenciones que rigen esta descripción.
- 5Escudo de armas; diseño descrito por un blasón₃.
- 6Honor y gloria; reconocimiento generalizado a las virtudes o la obra de una persona.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: balsón,bblasón,blasnó,blassón,blasónn,blaósn,bllasón,blsaón,lbasón,vlasón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for blasón
Misspelling Variants of "blasón"
Frequency rank: #46,369 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: