león
The verdict
“león” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #1,609 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,609
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Panthera leo) Felino del Viejo Mundo de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es distintiva ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | león |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈõn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “león” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for león is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leˈõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,609 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for león, with forms such as "elón", "lenó", and "leónn". 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, "lo", "los", "les", 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 león, spelled L-E-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Panthera leo) Felino del Viejo Mundo de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es distintiva la frondosa melena que orna el cuello de los machos adultos. Alcanzan los 225 kg de peso; su piel es normalmente pardoamarillenta, adaptada al mimetismo con su hábitat, la sabana africana, adonde están casi exclusivamente confinados hoy, tras haber habitado gran parte de Europa y Asia. Son predadores que forman manadas de un pequeño grupo de machos reproductores, varias leonas y sus crías inmaduras.
- 2(Puma concolor) Por analogía, puma.
- 3Figuradamente, persona audaz y arrojada.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elón,lenó,leónn,lleón,lóen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of león — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "león"
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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Using “león”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-E-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [leˈõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “lo” — see the side-by-side comparison. león vs lo
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: