caballón
[kaβ̞aˈʝõn]
The verdict
“caballón” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lomo entre surco y surco de la tierra arada.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caballon · caballón · Spanish
caballón · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caballón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞aˈʝõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “caballón” en español
Rare enough to double-check
caballón is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaβ̞aˈʝõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caballón, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is caballón, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Lomo entre surco y surco de la tierra arada.
- 2El que te levanta con la azada para formar y dividir las eras de las huertas, y para plantar las hortalizas o aporcarlas.
- 3El que se dispone para contener las aguas o darles dirección en los riegos.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.