limón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,980
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
limón is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Citrus x limon) Fruto cítrico obtenido del limonero. Es un hesperidio ovoide, con un pezón en el extremo distal, jugoso, con cáscara de color verde virando al amarillo, pulpa amarillenta y sabor m... Pronounced [liˈmõn]. It ranks #5,980 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lin and lio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liˈmõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for limón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liˈmõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,980 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for limón, with forms such as "ilmón", "limmón", and "limnó". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lin", "lio", "lomo", 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 limón, spelled L-I-M-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Citrus x limon) Fruto cítrico obtenido del limonero. Es un hesperidio ovoide, con un pezón en el extremo distal, jugoso, con cáscara de color verde virando al amarillo, pulpa amarillenta y sabor moderadamente ácido, debido a la concentración de ácido cítrico en su jugo. Se aprovecha también la capa más exterior de su piel, fuertemente aromática.
- 2(Citrus x limon) Árbol que produce este fruto₁.
- 3(Citrus x aurantifolia) Fruto cítrico, un hesperidio globoso, de entre 2,5 y 5 cm de diámetro. Es de color verde amarillento al madurar, aunque se suele consumir antes de la maduración; su pulpa es verde y jugosa, mucho más ácida que la del limón₁.
- 4(Citrus x latifolia) Fruto cítrico, un hesperidio ovoide, con un pezón en el extremo distal, de hasta 6 cm de diámetro. La cáscara es amarilla cuando madura, y de un verde pálido amarillento en el punto preferido de consumo. Es aromático y poco ácido, y en las variedades comerciales carece por lo general de semilla.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilmón,limmón,limnó,limónn,liómn,llimón,lmión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for limón
Misspelling Variants of "limón"
Frequency rank: #5,980 in Spanish
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