calefón
Spanish, noun/kaleˈfon/
calefón is spelled C-A-L-E-F-Ó-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 94,980th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calefón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “water heater” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Calentador para el agua de la red que funciona a partir de una llama que calienta un serpentín por donde…”.
What does calefón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewater heater
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Calentador para el agua de la red que funciona a partir de una llama que calienta un serpentín por donde circula la cañería del agua a calentar.
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 calefón
- calefones plural
- cálefon alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calefón?
- /kaleˈfon/
- [ka.leˈfõn]
- [kaleˈfõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is calefón in Spanish?
calefón appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).