carbón
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,582
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carbón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Carbono que las plantas verdes han tomado del dióxido de carbono en el aire, metabolizado por medio de la fotosíntesis, y que se ha ido depositando en el suelo, al morir las plantas y quedar enterr... Pronounced [kaɾˈβ̞õn]. It ranks #4,582 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with caro and cargo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carbón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾˈβ̞õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carbón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾˈβ̞õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,582 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for carbón, with forms such as "acrbón", "carbbón", and "carbnó". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caro", "cargo", "carro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 carbón, spelled C-A-R-B-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carbono que las plantas verdes han tomado del dióxido de carbono en el aire, metabolizado por medio de la fotosíntesis, y que se ha ido depositando en el suelo, al morir las plantas y quedar enterradas durante millones de años. Las masas vegetales enterradas más antiguas, que datan del periodo carbonífero, se han carbonificado creando la hulla; las más recientes, que datan del terciario, han formado el lignito.
- 2Restos de vegetales que sometidos a una combustión lenta e incompleta, se secan, adquieren un color negro y tienen una gran capacidad calórica como combustible.
- 3Trozo de la materia combustible de color negro procedente de la madera carbonizada o fosilizada, el carbón.
- 4Residuo carbonizado de una fogata, brasero o fuego, alimentado con carbón de piedra, carbón vegetal o leña.
- 5Vara vegetal carbonizada usada para dibujar.
- 6Zoopatía infecciosa, generalmente mortal, que causa inflamaciones musculares y edema en en los rumiantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrbón,carbbón,carbnó,carbónn,carrbón,carvón,caróbn,ccarbón,crabón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carbón
Misspelling Variants of "carbón"
Frequency rank: #4,582 in Spanish
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