punzón
[pũnˈsõn]
The verdict
“punzón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #56,595 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,595
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Instrumento de hierro que remata en punta, que sirve para abrir ojetes y para otros usos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punzón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pũnˈsõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “punzón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for punzón is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pũnˈsõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,595 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for punzón 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 punzón, spelled P-U-N-Z-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de hierro que remata en punta, que sirve para abrir ojetes y para otros usos.
- 2Buril (instrumento para grabar).
- 3Pitón₂ (cuerno que recién aparece).
- 4Instrumento de acero algo romo, que en la boca tiene grabada una figura que, aplicándola y dando golpe sobre cualquier materia, deja estampado en ella profundamente lo que en él está de realce..
- 5Llave de honor que llevaban en la cartera derecha de la casaca ciertos empleados de palacio, y de la cual solo se descubría el anillo..
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 “punzón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-N-Z-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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