pendón
The verdict
“pendón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #52,439 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,439
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Insignia o estandarte a modo de bandera, más larga que ancha, utilizada como distintivo desde la Edad Media.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pendón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pẽn̪ˈd̪õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pendón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pendón is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pẽn̪ˈd̪õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,439 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pendón 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 pendón, spelled P-E-N-D-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Insignia o estandarte a modo de bandera, más larga que ancha, utilizada como distintivo desde la Edad Media.
- 2Insignia militar, que era una bandera o estandarte pequeño, y se usaba en la milicia para distinguir los regimientos, batallones y demás cuerpos del ejército que iban a la guerra. Hoy usan de banderas o estandartes, según sus institutos.
- 3Divisa o insignia que tienen las iglesias y cofradías para guiar las procesiones, y consiste en una asta de donde pende un pedazo largo de tela que remata en dos puntas.
- 4Vástago que sale del tronco principal del árbol.
- 5Insignia semejante a la bandera, de la cual se distingue en el tamaño, pues es un tercio más larga que ella, y redonda por el pendiente.
- 6Persona, especialmente mujer, muy alta, desvaída y descuidada.
- 7Persona de vida irregular y desordenada.
- 8Persona moralmente despreciable.
- 9Prostituta.
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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Using “pendón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-N-D-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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