capón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#89,649
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
capón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hombre o animal castrado. Pronounced [kaˈpõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈpõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for capón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈpõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,649 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for capón 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 capón, spelled C-A-P-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hombre o animal castrado.
- 2Pollo que se castra cuando es pequeño y se ceba para comerlo.
- 3Maguey que tiene el cogollo cortado para estimular la producción del aguamiel.
- 4Retoño que nace en una planta después de haber sido cortada la primera vez.
- 5Haz de sarmientos para echar en la lumbre.
- 6Cadena o cabo grueso, firme en la serviola, que sirve para tener suspendida el ancla por el arganeo.
- 7Golpe que se da en la cabeza con el nudillo del dedo corazón, teniendo el puño cerrado.
- 8Plato mexicano compuesto de chile con huevo y longaniza.
Frequency rank: #89,649 in Spanish
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