pericón
[peɾiˈkõn]
The verdict
“pericón” 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Tagetes lucida) Especie vegetal familia de las asteráceas que alcanza los 80 cm, con hojas opuestas y alargadas, de bordes dentados, flores amarillas de pétalos redondeados y frutos oscuros no abi...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pericón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɾiˈkõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pericón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pericón is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾiˈkõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pericón 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 pericón, spelled P-E-R-I-C-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Tagetes lucida) Especie vegetal familia de las asteráceas que alcanza los 80 cm, con hojas opuestas y alargadas, de bordes dentados, flores amarillas de pétalos redondeados y frutos oscuros no abiertos, conteniendo una única semilla.
- 2Bailes criollo, semejante a la cuadrilla; consta de cuatro partes o figuras llamadas: demanda o espejo, postrera o alegre, y la cadena y el cielo. Se baila con seis u ocho parejas y la música de la guitarra es acompañada de canto. Cada pareja debe decir un verso, o relación y es donde el gaucho luce la agudeza picaresca de su ingenio para decir una galantería o un disparate gracioso (bolazo) a su compañera.
- 3Música del pericón₂.
- 4Abanico grande.
- 5Comodín del juego de las quínolas (caballo de bastos).
- 6Chupito.
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 “pericón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-I-C-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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