polizón
[poliˈsõn]
The verdict
“polizón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,104 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,104
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona ociosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-polizon · polizón · Spanish
polizón · rank #86,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,104
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH platito
Nearest frequency peer: platito (-4 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 “polizón”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- plantes
plantes
13,902 corpus weight
- platito
platito
13,901 corpus weight
- polizón
polizón
13,897 corpus weight
- posicionadas
posicionadas
13,892 corpus weight
- posicionaron
posicionaron
13,891 corpus weight
- postmoderni…
postmodernidad
13,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “polizón” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polizón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poliˈsõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “polizón” en español
Rare enough to double-check
polizón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,104 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [poliˈsõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for polizón 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 polizón, spelled P-O-L-I-Z-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Persona ociosa.
- 2Persona que viaja clandestinamente y sin pagar pasaje en un vehículo, especialmente en un barco.
- 3Por extensión, animal que viaja accidentalmente acompañando a la carga principal.
- 4Armazón que, para dar vuelo a la falda, se llevaba en la parte lumbar de los vestidos de dama hacia fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polizón appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y visto en mi Consejo de las Indias y consultádoseme sobre ello, teniendo presente que el haberse prohibido por las referidas leyes de la Recopilación el pase de los polizones a Indias y impuéstose a ellos y a los jefes que lo permitieren las graves penas que en ellas se expresan es porque resulta de este desorden el perjuicio tan insubsanable de la despo…
El tronco de esas altaneras familias había sido quizá algún pobre polizón venido de España sin más riquezas que su sombrero embreado y un chaquetón de lana, o algún honrado comerciante que había ganado sus blasones detrás del mostrador de una tienda.
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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