cajón peruano
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cajón peruano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaˈxõm peˈɾwano] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cajón peruano” sits in Spanish frequency
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
- 1Instrumento 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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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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