cajón
Spanish, noun/kaˈxon/
cajón is spelled C-A-J-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,770th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cajón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a large box” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pieza móvil de diversos muebles, cerrada por sus costados y abajo, abierta por arriba, usada para guardar…”.
What does cajón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea large box
- 2
masculinedrawer
- 3
masculinecajón (box-shaped percussion instrument)
- 4
Latin-Americamasculinecoffin
- 5
masculinea valley surrounded by mountains of considerable height, through which a river runs
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pieza móvil de diversos muebles, cerrada por sus costados y abajo, abierta por arriba, usada para guardar diversos elementos ordenadamente. 2. Recipiente de madera, de forma cuadrangular, utilizado para el transporte de mercancìas. 3. Valle rodeado por montañas o cerros de considerable altura, por cuyo fondo corre un río o arroyo. 4. Espacio cerrado por rejas y con puertas, en el que los caballos esperan la largada de la carrera.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cajón
- cajones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cajón?
- /kaˈxon/
- [kaˈxõn]
- [kaˈχõŋ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cajón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cajón in Spanish?
cajón appears 7.6 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).