hemión

/[eˈmjõn]/ noun

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6 characters

Language

Spanish

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hemión is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Equus hemionus) Mamífero perisodáctilo, estrechamente emparentado con el asno y el caballo, nativo de las áreas desérticas del Medio y Lejano Oriente, desde Siria hasta el Tibet. Es un poco mayor ... Pronounced [eˈmjõn].

Key facts for hemión
PropertyValue
Headwordhemión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[eˈmjõn]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hemión is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hemión is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈmjõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Equus hemionus) Mamífero perisodáctilo, estrechamente emparentado con el asno y el caballo, nativo de las áreas desérticas del Medio y Lejano Oriente, desde Siria hasta el Tibet. Es un poco mayor ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for hemión 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 hemión, spelled H-E-M-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Equus hemionus) Mamífero perisodáctilo, estrechamente emparentado con el asno y el caballo, nativo de las áreas desérticas del Medio y Lejano Oriente, desde Siria hasta el Tibet. Es un poco mayor que el asno doméstico, alcanzando los 300 kg de peso y los dos metros de longitud, con las piernas un poco más cortas en comparación, el pelaje bayo o colorado, y una línea negra sobre la espina dorsal. Aunque se lo conoce también como asno salvaje es susceptiblede ser domesticado, y los sumerios ya lo empleaban como bestia de tiro y carga.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hemión"?
"hemión" is spelled H-E-M-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈmjõn].
What does "hemión" mean?
As a noun, "hemión" means: (Equus hemionus) Mamífero perisodáctilo, estrechamente emparentado con el asno y el caballo, nativo de las áreas desérticas del Medio y Lejano Oriente, desde Siria hasta el Tibet. Es un poco mayor ...
How do you pronounce "hemión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hemión" is [eˈmjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hemión" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.