riñón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,475
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
riñón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano del sistema excretor entre los vertebrados, que filtra las toxinas de la sangre y las desecha mediante la orina. Se ubican en la mitad posterior del cuerpo, a ambos lados de la espina dorsal. Pronounced [riˈɲõn]. Often confused with río and ron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riñón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [riˈɲõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for riñón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [riˈɲõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,475 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for riñón, with forms such as "irñón", "riñnó", and "riñónn". 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, "río", "ron", "rito", 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 riñón, spelled R-I-Ñ-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Órgano del sistema excretor entre los vertebrados, que filtra las toxinas de la sangre y las desecha mediante la orina. Se ubican en la mitad posterior del cuerpo, a ambos lados de la espina dorsal.
- 2Esta mísma víscera de ciertos animales, usada como alimento.
- 3Por extensión, parte del cuerpo equivalente al bajo vientre sobre la cara dorsal, donde se ubican estos en el ser humano.
- 4Figuradamente, núcleo o parte más interna de algo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irñón,riñnó,riñónn,rióñn,rriñón,rñión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "riñón"
Frequency rank: #15,475 in Spanish
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