bordón
[boɾˈð̞õn]
The verdict
“bordón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #74,299 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #74,299
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
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.
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bordón is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boɾˈð̞õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #74,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bordón 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 bordón, spelled B-O-R-D-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-R-D-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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