faldón

/[fal̪ˈd̪õn]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#94,101

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

faldón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Falda suelta al aire, que pende de alguna ropa. Pronounced [fal̪ˈd̪õn].

Key facts for faldón
PropertyValue
Headwordfaldón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[fal̪ˈd̪õn]
Letters6
Frequency rank#94,101
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for faldón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fal̪ˈd̪õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #94,101 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for faldón in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 faldón, spelled F-A-L-D-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Falda suelta al aire, que pende de alguna ropa.
  2. 2
    Parte inferior de alguna ropa, colgadura, etc.
  3. 3
    Prenda holgada que llevan los bebés desde la cintura hasta los pies.
  4. 4
    Piedra de tahona que por estar muy gastada sirve encima de otra, que no lo está tanto, para que con el peso de ambas pueda molerse bien el grano.
  5. 5
    Pieza de cuero que está unida a las armaduras de la silla para evitar el roce de la pierna del jinete con los flancos del caballo.
  6. 6
    Zócalo adherido al lateral de la carrocería que mejora la aerodinámica y la estabilidad del vehículo.
  7. 7
    Parte inferior de la página de un periódico, que cubre todo el ancho.^([definición imprecisa])
  8. 8
    En las cubiertas de los edificios con cuatro vertientes, se llama faldón a cada una de las dos vertientes que caen sobre las paredes testeras. El faldón forma un triángulo, cuya base es el largo de la pared testera; los lados, las dos líneas tesas, y su vértice está donde éstas se juntan en el caballete.
  9. 9
    Conjunto de los dos lienzos y del dintel que forma la boca de la chimenea.

Frequency rank: #94,101 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faldón"?
"faldón" is spelled F-A-L-D-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [fal̪ˈd̪õn].
What does "faldón" mean?
As a noun, "faldón" means: Falda suelta al aire, que pende de alguna ropa.
How do you pronounce "faldón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faldón" is [fal̪ˈd̪õn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faldón" come from?
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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.