canalón
[kanaˈlõn]
The verdict
“canalón” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conducto, normalmente instalado en el borde del alero y sostenido por fiadores, que recibe y evacúa el agua de los tejados.
Corpus desk
Index ES-canalon · canalón · Spanish
canalón · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canalón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kanaˈlõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “canalón” en español
Rare enough to double-check
canalón is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kanaˈlõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for canalón, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is canalón, spelled C-A-N-A-L-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Conducto, normalmente instalado en el borde del alero y sostenido por fiadores, que recibe y evacúa el agua de los tejados.
- 2Sombrero de copa semiesférica usado por el clero católico, con ala ancha y levemente doblada hacia arriba, por ello también llamado de canal, de canoa o de teja.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.