capuchón
[kapuˈt͡ʃõn]
The verdict
“capuchón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,562 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,562
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abrigo, a manera de capucha, que suelen usar las damas, sobre todo de noche.
Corpus desk
Index ES-capuchon · capuchón · Spanish
capuchón · rank #86,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,562
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH capuchinas
Nearest frequency peer: capuchinas (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “capuchón”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- candidate
candidate
13,442 corpus weight
- cantonales
cantonales
13,441 corpus weight
- capuchinas
capuchinas
13,440 corpus weight
- capuchón
capuchón
13,439 corpus weight
- caput
caput
13,438 corpus weight
- caracteriza…
caracterizando
13,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “capuchón” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capuchón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kapuˈt͡ʃõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “capuchón” en español
Rare enough to double-check
capuchón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,562 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kapuˈt͡ʃõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for capuchón in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is capuchón, spelled C-A-P-U-C-H-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Abrigo, a manera de capucha, que suelen usar las damas, sobre todo de noche.
- 2Objeto utilizado para cubrir, tapar o proteger a otro.
- 3Prenda carcelaria, destinada a estorbar la comunicación entre los presos fuera de las celdas.
- 4Traje de carnaval como el dominó pero más corto.
- 5Variante de capucha.
- 6Capirote (cucurucho de las procesiones en Semana Santa).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how capuchón appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El capuchón de una birome.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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