papión
The verdict
“papión” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Papio cynocephalus) Especie de primate catarrino, con un morro negro que recuerda vagamente al de un perro por su forma ancha y tamaño grande, y una pelusa amarillenta que le cubre casi todo el re...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈpjõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papión” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for papión is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈpjõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Papio cynocephalus) Especie de primate catarrino, con un morro negro que recuerda vagamente al de un perro por su forma ancha y tamaño grande, y una pelusa amarillenta que le cubre casi todo el re...".
No misspelling variants are generated for papión in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 papión, spelled P-A-P-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Papio cynocephalus) Especie de primate catarrino, con un morro negro que recuerda vagamente al de un perro por su forma ancha y tamaño grande, y una pelusa amarillenta que le cubre casi todo el resto del cuerpo, que habita en sabanas y bosques que van desde Kenia y Zimbabue hasta Botsuana y Tanzania.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “papión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-P-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [paˈpjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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