cajón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,762
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cajón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza móvil de diversos muebles, cerrada por sus costados y abajo, abierta por arriba, usada para guardar diversos elementos ordenadamente. Pronounced [kaˈxõn]. It ranks #8,762 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with con and can.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cajón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈxõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cajón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈxõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,762 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cajón, with forms such as "acjón", "cajjón", and "cajnó". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "can", "caso", 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 cajón, spelled C-A-J-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza móvil de diversos muebles, cerrada por sus costados y abajo, abierta por arriba, usada para guardar diversos elementos ordenadamente.
- 2Recipiente de madera, de forma cuadrangular, utilizado para el transporte de mercancìas.
- 3Valle rodeado por montañas o cerros de considerable altura, por cuyo fondo corre un río o arroyo.
- 4Espacio cerrado por rejas y con puertas, en el que los caballos esperan la largada de la carrera.
- 5Compartimento con dos puertas que se abren hacia arriba, para el encierro y traslado del toro.
- 6Mueble para el traslado y entierro de los difuntos.
- 7Espacio para colocar una fila de libros, entre tabla y tabla, de los estantes y muebles similares.
- 8Taller, o puesto de venta en los mercados, hecho de madera.
- 9Instrumento musical originario de Perú, que consiste en una caja de madera sobre la que se sienta el músico que la toca.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acjón,cajjón,cajnó,cajónn,caójn,ccajón,cjaón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cajón
Misspelling Variants of "cajón"
Frequency rank: #8,762 in Spanish
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