dragón
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,298
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
dragón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Animal fantástico, a modo de enorme reptil, frecuente en diversas mitologías de todo el mundo. En Occidente es con frecuencia maligno, alado y capaz de arrojar fuego, mientras que en Oriente es tem... Pronounced [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞õn]. It ranks #7,298 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dron and drogo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dragón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,298 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for dragón, with forms such as "dargón", "ddragón", and "draggón". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dron", "drogo", "duraron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 dragón, spelled D-R-A-G-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal fantástico, a modo de enorme reptil, frecuente en diversas mitologías de todo el mundo. En Occidente es con frecuencia maligno, alado y capaz de arrojar fuego, mientras que en Oriente es temible, pero sabio y benéfico.
- 2Cualquiera de varias especies de animales que recuerdan en apariencia a dicha bestia, como los varanos.
- 3Soldado de cualquiera de varios antiguos cuerpos de infantería introducidos en el siglo XVI, que empleaban monturas para el transporte, reconocimiento y eventualmente el combate, formando así un híbrido con la caballería, o de cualquiera de los cuerpos que por razones históricas conservan esa designación.
- 4(Antirrhinum majus) Hierba perenne, de la familia de las plantagináceas, nativa de la cuenca del Mediterráneo y ampliamente cultivada por sus flores.
- 5Olor desagradable que sale por la boca, en particular el producido por ingerir bebidas alcohólicas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dargón,ddragón,draggón,dragnó,dragónn,draógn,drgaón,drragón,rdagón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "dragón"
Frequency rank: #7,298 in Spanish
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