nailon
[ˈnajlõn]
The verdict
“nailon” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,997 among 1,151 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,997
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polímero sintético de poliamida, empleada en la confección de textiles como sustituto de la seda y en otras manufacturas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-nailon · nailon · Spanish
nailon · rank #72,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,997
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Mújica
Nearest frequency peer: Mújica (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “nailon”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- morcillas
morcillas
27,015 corpus weight
- mucamas
mucamas
27,009 corpus weight
- Mújica
Mújica
27,005 corpus weight
- nailon
nailon
27,004 corpus weight
- necesitase
necesitase
27,001 corpus weight
- noes
noes
26,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “nailon” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nailon |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnajlõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “nailon” en español
Rare enough to double-check
nailon is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,997 among 1,151 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnajlõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polímero sintético de poliamida, empleada en la confección de textiles como sustituto de la seda y en otras manufacturas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nailon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is nailon, spelled N-A-I-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Polímero sintético de poliamida, empleada en la confección de textiles como sustituto de la seda y en otras manufacturas.
This word in other languages
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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