frailejón
Spanish, noun[fɾajleˈxõn]
frailejón is spelled F-R-A-I-L-E-J-Ó-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written Spanish, the 239,276th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frailejón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “frailejon (any of the perennial shrubs in the genus Espeletia)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Planta compuesta americana”.
What does frailejón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefrailejon (any of the perennial shrubs in the genus Espeletia)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Planta compuesta americana.
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 frailejón
- frailejones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frailejón?
- [fɾajleˈxõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frailejón in Spanish?
frailejón appears about once in every 46 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).