Dijon
[ˈd̪ixõn]
The verdict
“Dijon” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #63,000 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #63,000
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - es una ciudad capital del departamento de Côte-d'Or Francia
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dijon |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪ixõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dijon” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Dijon is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪ixõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,000 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "es una ciudad capital del departamento de Côte-d'Or Francia".
Zero misspellings are on record for Dijon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Dijon, spelled D-I-J-O-N.
Definition
- 1es una ciudad capital del departamento de Côte-d'Or Francia
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 “Dijon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-I-J-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈd̪ixõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.