codón
Spanish, noun/koˈdon/
codón is spelled C-O-D-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Spanish, the 163,697th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Codón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “pebble (stone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Una secuencia de tres nucleótidos adyacentes que en un ARNm codifica para un aminoácido específico durante la…”.
What does codón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepebble (stone)
noun
- 1
masculinecodon
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Una secuencia de tres nucleótidos adyacentes que en un ARNm codifica para un aminoácido específico durante la síntesis de proteínas o traducción.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of codón
- codones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce codón?
- /koˈdon/
- [koˈð̞õn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to codón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is codón in Spanish?
codón appears about once in every 20 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).