maricón
[maɾiˈkõn]
The verdict
“maricón” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,765. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,765
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo sexo biológico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-maricon · maricón · Spanish
maricón · rank #22,765 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,765
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH malentendido
Nearest frequency peer: malentendido (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “maricón”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- látigo
látigo
77,240 corpus weight
- lírico
lírico
77,239 corpus weight
- malentendido
malentendido
77,237 corpus weight
- maricón
maricón
77,236 corpus weight
- matamos
matamos
77,235 corpus weight
- mediar
mediar
77,232 corpus weight
What this shows “maricón” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maricón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maɾiˈkõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “maricón”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maricón (IPA [maɾiˈkõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,765 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maricón, with forms such as "amricón", "maircón", and "marción". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mario", "Marín", "marido", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is maricón, spelled M-A-R-I-C-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Hombre que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo sexo biológico.
- 2Que no tiene valor para enfrentarse a las dificultades o para defender sus ideas.
- 3Persona que actúa a traición o sin piedad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maricón appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puta, jefe, no sea mala onda, puta, jefe, no sea maricón, no me deje sin pega ….
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amricón
- maircón
- marción
- mariccón
- maricnó
- maricónn
- mariócn
- marricón
- mmaricón
- mraicón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maricón - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maricón", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).