galardón
[galaɾˈð̞õn]
The verdict
“galardón” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,381. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,381
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retribución a la que uno se hace acreedor por sus servicios.
Corpus desk
Index ES-galardon · galardón · Spanish
galardón · rank #15,381 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,381
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH frijoles
Nearest frequency peer: frijoles (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “galardón”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- finos
finos
84,623 corpus weight
- friends
friends
84,622 corpus weight
- frijoles
frijoles
84,621 corpus weight
- galardón
galardón
84,620 corpus weight
- genuino
genuino
84,618 corpus weight
- Gibraltar
Gibraltar
84,617 corpus weight
What this shows “galardón” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galardón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [galaɾˈð̞õn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “galardón”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around galardón (IPA [galaɾˈð̞õn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,381 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for galardón, with forms such as "aglardón", "gaalrdón", and "galadrón". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ganaron", "Gallardo", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is galardón, spelled G-A-L-A-R-D-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Retribución a la que uno se hace acreedor por sus servicios.
- 2En particular, retribución honorífica que se concede a uno por sus méritos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how galardón appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¡Pues ni él ni las armas —replicó don Quijote— quiero que se ahorquen, porque no se diga que a buen servicio, mal galardón!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aglardón
- gaalrdón
- galadrón
- galarddón
- galardnó
- galardónn
- galarrdón
- galaródn
- gallardón
- galradón
- ggalardón
- glaardón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of galardón - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "galardón", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).