don Juan
[ˈd̪õŋ ˈxwãn]
The verdict
“don Juan” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre que seduce a las mujeres.
Corpus desk
Index ES-don-juan · don Juan · Spanish
don Juan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | don Juan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈd̪õŋ ˈxwãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “don Juan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
don Juan is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˈd̪õŋ ˈxwãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hombre que seduce a las mujeres.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for don Juan, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is don Juan, spelled D-O-N- -J-U-A-N.
Definition
- 1Hombre que seduce a las mujeres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how don Juan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y José deslucía a la sombra de ese varón idealizado al que todas aceptaban como un don Juan que amaba con una pasión de pubescente
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.