filón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,452
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
filón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Masa metálifera o pétrea que llena una grieta de las rocas, frecuentemente depositada por sedimentación de aguas subterráneas o de origen volcánico. Pronounced [fiˈlõn]. Often confused with fin and fio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fiˈlõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for filón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fiˈlõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,452 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for filón, with forms such as "ffilón", "fillón", and "filnó". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fin", "fio", "flo", 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 filón, spelled F-I-L-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masa metálifera o pétrea que llena una grieta de las rocas, frecuentemente depositada por sedimentación de aguas subterráneas o de origen volcánico.
- 2Asunto, negocio o materia del que se aguarda obtener gran beneficio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffilón,fillón,filnó,filónn,fióln,flión,iflón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for filón
Misspelling Variants of "filón"
Frequency rank: #42,452 in Spanish
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