malecón
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,704
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
malecón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Murallón o terraplén que detiene el flujo del agua en playas o en las orillas de los ríos. Pronounced [maleˈkõn]. Often confused with maricón and maletín.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malecón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maleˈkõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for malecón is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maleˈkõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,704 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for malecón, with forms such as "amlecón", "maelcón", and "malceón". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "maricón", "maletín", 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 malecón, spelled M-A-L-E-C-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Murallón o terraplén que detiene el flujo del agua en playas o en las orillas de los ríos.
- 2Avenida que se encuentra paralela a la playa o a la orilla de un río.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amlecón,maelcón,malceón,maleccón,malecnó,malecónn,maleócn,mallecón,mlaecón,mmalecón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for malecón
Misspelling Variants of "malecón"
Frequency rank: #25,704 in Spanish
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