colón
Spanish, noun
colón is spelled C-O-L-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,378th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “colón (currency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, colon is a different word: “colon (punctuation mark)”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Unidad monetaria de Costa Rica. Su fracción es de cien céntimos”.
What does colón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecolón (currency)
noun
- 1
masculinecolon (punctuation mark)
noun
- 1
masculinecolon (part of the large intestine)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unidad monetaria de Costa Rica. Su fracción es de cien céntimos. 2. Unidad monetaria de El Salvador, en desuso desde 2001, cuando se permitió la circulación del dólar estadounidense. Su fracción es de cien centavos.
noun: 1. Barra de pan bregado y alargado, cuyos extremos terminan en unos picos muy diferenciados.
adjective: 1. Persona que suele colarse en las filas.
noun: 1. Parte del intestino grueso situada entre el ciego y el recto. Se divide en colon ascendente, colon transverso, colon descendente y colon sigmoide.
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 colón
- cólones plural
- colones plural
- colona feminine
- colonas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to colón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colón in Spanish?
colón appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).