farallón
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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farallón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Roca alta y tajada que sobresale en el mar, que en el pasado era parte de tierra firme. Pronounced [faɾaˈʝõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farallón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faɾaˈʝõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for farallón is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faɾaˈʝõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for farallón 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 farallón, spelled F-A-R-A-L-L-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roca alta y tajada que sobresale en el mar, que en el pasado era parte de tierra firme.
- 2Parte superior de un filón cuando sobresale en la superficie del terreno.
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