ratón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,860
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ratón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de las numerosas especies de roedores de la familia de los múridos, similares a las ratas pero de tamaño más pequeño. Tienen el hocico puntiagudo, orejas apantalladas y la cola larga. So... Pronounced [raˈt̪õn]. It ranks #8,860 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ron and reto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [raˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ratón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [raˈt̪õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,860 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ratón, with forms such as "artón", "ratnó", and "rattón". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ron", "reto", "roto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ratón, spelled R-A-T-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de las numerosas especies de roedores de la familia de los múridos, similares a las ratas pero de tamaño más pequeño. Tienen el hocico puntiagudo, orejas apantalladas y la cola larga. Son muchas veces comensales del ser humano o plagas de los cultivos, y algunas especies son domésticas.
- 2Dispositivo de control utilizado para desplazar un puntero gráfico moviendo el mismo de manera análoga.
- 3Persona medida en sus gastos hasta el punto de la tacañería.
- 4Intenso malestar que sigue a una borrachera.
- 5Piedra afilada que está en el fondo del mar y roza los cables.
- 6Músculo de la región anterior del brazo, donde cubre a los músculos coracobraquial y braquial anterior. En su parte superior se compone de dos porciones o cabezas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: artón,ratnó,rattón,ratónn,raótn,rratón,rtaón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ratón
Misspelling Variants of "ratón"
Frequency rank: #8,860 in Spanish
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