facón
Spanish, noun/faˈkon/
facón is spelled F-A-C-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 132,280th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “long gaucho knife” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Puñal grande con cabo de plata generalmente y una S en la empuñadura, que usa el paisano para el trabajo y…”.
What does facón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelong gaucho knife
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Puñal grande con cabo de plata generalmente y una S en la empuñadura, que usa el paisano para el trabajo y como terrible arma de pelea por la destreza con que lo maneja.
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 facón
- facones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce facón?
- /faˈkon/
- [faˈkõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is facón in Spanish?
facón appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).