cimarrón
[simaˈrõn]
The verdict
“cimarrón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,577 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,577
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dicho de una persona o animal, huido de las colonias establecidas por los conquistadores en América para echarse al monte
Corpus desk
Index ES-cimarron · cimarrón · Spanish
cimarrón · rank #67,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,577
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cinemateca
Nearest frequency peer: cinemateca (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cimarrón”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chocaba
chocaba
32,429 corpus weight
- chocas
chocas
32,428 corpus weight
- choquen
choquen
32,427 corpus weight
- cimarrón
cimarrón
32,424 corpus weight
- cinemateca
cinemateca
32,422 corpus weight
- Cinthia
Cinthia
32,421 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cimarrón” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimarrón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [simaˈrõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “cimarrón” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
cimarrón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,577 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [simaˈrõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cimarrón, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is cimarrón, spelled C-I-M-A-R-R-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una persona o animal, huido de las colonias establecidas por los conquistadores en América para echarse al monte
- 2Del ganado, que se ha criado en ese régimen, y es bravío o indomesticable
- 3De una especie vegetal, que es silvestre, existiendo también un cultivar
- 4Del mate, bebido sin otro sabor que el de la yerba mate, de pronunciado sabor amargo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cimarrón appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un hidalgo, llamado Antonio de Saact Miguelí yendo con sus compañeros por las sierras de la villa de Sanct Joan de la Maganna (que es en la mitad desta nuestra isla, a la parte desta costa del Sur), topó con un indio cimarrón o bravo que andaba en cueros, e con ciertas varas tos tadas para pelear o matar algunos puercos cimarrones o salvajes, de los cuale…
la ysla al presente está muy pacífica de yndios cimarrones, que un español sin temor puede andar por ella, porque se han seguido de manera que se han castigado todos los principales de ellos
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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