gamón
Spanish, noun/ɡaˈmon/
gamón is spelled G-A-M-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Spanish, the 204,261st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gamón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “asphodel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Planta de la familia de las liliáceas, con hojas erguidas, largas, con forma de espada; flores blancas con…”.
What does gamón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineasphodel
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Planta de la familia de las liliáceas, con hojas erguidas, largas, con forma de espada; flores blancas con una línea rojiza en cada pétalo, en espiga apretada, sobre un escapo rollizo de aprox. un metro de altura, y raíces tuberculosas, fusiformes e íntimamente unidas por uno de sus extremos. Sus tubérculos de han empleado para combatir las enfermedades cutáneas.
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 gamón
- gamones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gamón?
- /ɡaˈmon/
- [ɡaˈmõn]
- [gaˈmõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gamón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gamón in Spanish?
gamón appears about once in every 32 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).