bordón
[boɾˈð̞õn]
The verdict
“bordón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,299 among 24,339 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,299
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 24,339
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bastón o palo más alto que la estatura de un hombre, con una punta de hierro, y en el medio de la cabeza unos botones que lo adornan.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bordon · bordón · Spanish
bordón · rank #74,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,299
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 24,339
- PHOTO-FINISH borden
Nearest frequency peer: borden (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bordón”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bolillos
bolillos
25,705 corpus weight
- bonne
bonne
25,704 corpus weight
- borden
borden
25,703 corpus weight
- bordón
bordón
25,702 corpus weight
- bradicardia
bradicardia
25,700 corpus weight
- brillen
brillen
25,699 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bordón” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boɾˈð̞õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bordón” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bordón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,299 among 24,339 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [boɾˈð̞õn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 11 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bordón in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is bordón, spelled B-O-R-D-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Bastón o palo más alto que la estatura de un hombre, con una punta de hierro, y en el medio de la cabeza unos botones que lo adornan.
- 2Verso quebrado que se repite al fin de cada copla.
- 3Voz o frase que inadvertidamente y por vicioso hábito repite una persona con mucha frecuencia en la conversación.
- 4Persona que guía y sostiene a otra.
- 5En los instrumentos músicos de cuerda, cualquiera de las más gruesas que hacen el bajo.
- 6Moldura convexa, generalmente de sección semicircular que se pone para adorno de puertas, balcones, etc.
- 7LLamado también pestaña, es el reborde de las ruedas de ferrocarriles, en virtud del caul se mantienen los vagones en los rieles evitando el deslizamiento lateral del vagón transversalmente a los carriles.
- 8Denominación genérica por la que se designa una cualquiera de las piezas largas de la arboladura de los buques, tales como palos, vergas, masteleros, botalones, botavaras, picos, etc.
- 9Cada una de las piezas de madera que forma la cabria o abanico de la máquina para arbolar los buques.
- 10Cuerda de tripa que se emplea para dilatar conductos naturales, o conservar los que se han practicado artificialmente.
- 11Omisión de una o más palabras, miembro del discurso, frase, etc., que al componer comete el cajista. Débese la mayor parte de las veces a una repetición en el original de las mismas palabras a corta distancia.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.