cajón peruano

/[kaˈxõm peˈɾwano]/ phrase

The verdict

“cajón peruano” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Instrumento musical originario de Perú, que consiste en una caja de madera sobre la que se sienta el músico que la toca.

Key facts for cajón peruano
PropertyValue
Headwordcajón peruano
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[kaˈxõm peˈɾwano]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cajón peruano” sits in Spanish frequency

cajón peruano falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cajón peruano is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈxõm peˈɾwano]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrumento musical originario de Perú, que consiste en una caja de madera sobre la que se sienta el músico que la toca.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cajón peruano 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 cajón peruano, spelled C-A-J-Ó-N- -P-E-R-U-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrumento musical originario de Perú, que consiste en una caja de madera sobre la que se sienta el músico que la toca.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cajón peruano"?
"cajón peruano" is spelled C-A-J-Ó-N- -P-E-R-U-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈxõm peˈɾwano].
What does "cajón peruano" mean?
As a phrase, "cajón peruano" means: Instrumento musical originario de Perú, que consiste en una caja de madera sobre la que se sienta el músico que la toca.
How do you pronounce "cajón peruano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cajón peruano" is [kaˈxõm peˈɾwano]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cajón peruano" come from?
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Using “cajón peruano”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-J-Ó-N- -P-E-R-U-A-N-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [kaˈxõm peˈɾwano] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.