salchichón
The verdict
“salchichón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #64,960 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #64,960
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tipo de embutido curado de origen griego y romano, típico de la gastronomía española y apreciado por sus características organolépticas. Se elabora con carne magra de cerdo y algún contenido de toc...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salchichón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [salʲt͡ʃiˈt͡ʃõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salchichón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salchichón is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [salʲt͡ʃiˈt͡ʃõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,960 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tipo de embutido curado de origen griego y romano, típico de la gastronomía española y apreciado por sus características organolépticas. Se elabora con carne magra de cerdo y algún contenido de toc...".
No misspelling variants are generated for salchichón 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 salchichón, spelled S-A-L-C-H-I-C-H-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de embutido curado de origen griego y romano, típico de la gastronomía española y apreciado por sus características organolépticas. Se elabora con carne magra de cerdo y algún contenido de tocino. Se condimenta con sal y algunas especias tales como pimienta, nuez moscada, clavo o cilantro. Toda esta masa picada se deja macerar durante unas veinticuatro horas y después se embute en intestino de vaca o cerdo, colgándolo para su curado, que puede ser ahumado o simplemente secado al aire durante algunos días.
Frequency rank: #64,960 in Spanish
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Using “salchichón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-C-H-I-C-H-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [salʲt͡ʃiˈt͡ʃõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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