cucharón

/[kut͡ʃaˈɾõn]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,148

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cucharón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuchara grande y de cabeza hemisférica utilizada para servir sopas y otros alimentos ricos en caldo. Pronounced [kut͡ʃaˈɾõn].

Key facts for cucharón
PropertyValue
Headwordcucharón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kut͡ʃaˈɾõn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#70,148
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cucharón in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cucharón is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kut͡ʃaˈɾõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,148 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cucharón in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cucharón, spelled C-U-C-H-A-R-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cuchara grande y de cabeza hemisférica utilizada para servir sopas y otros alimentos ricos en caldo.
  2. 2
    Cantidad de alimento que cabe en un cucharón₁.
  3. 3
    Órgano de los animales que se ocupa de bombear la sangre.
  4. 4
    Persona que se mete en asuntos que no son de su incumbencia.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #70,148 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cucharón"?
"cucharón" is spelled C-U-C-H-A-R-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [kut͡ʃaˈɾõn].
What does "cucharón" mean?
As a noun, "cucharón" means: Cuchara grande y de cabeza hemisférica utilizada para servir sopas y otros alimentos ricos en caldo.
How do you pronounce "cucharón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cucharón" is [kut͡ʃaˈɾõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cucharón" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.