cascarón
[kaskaˈɾõn]
The verdict
“cascarón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #51,439 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51,439
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cáscara de cualquier huevo de ave y más particularmente la que rompe el pollo para salir del huevo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cascarón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaskaˈɾõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cascarón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cascarón is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaskaˈɾõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,439 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cascarón 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 cascarón, spelled C-A-S-C-A-R-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cáscara de cualquier huevo de ave y más particularmente la que rompe el pollo para salir del huevo.
- 2En el juego de la cascarela, el lance de ir a robar con espada y basto.
- 3El de huevo, relleno de tiza, almidón, papel picado u otras cosas que por diversión se tiran unos a otros a la cabeza durante el carnaval.
- 4Parte de una cúpula, generalmente semiesférica, situada entre el tambor y la linterna.
- 5Piedra que se coloca entre el punto de concurrencia de los radios de las dovelas.
- 6La piedra redonda que forma parte de las dovelas de un nicho.
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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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Using “cascarón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-S-C-A-R-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaskaˈɾõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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