salchichón
[salʲt͡ʃiˈt͡ʃõn]
The verdict
“salchichón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,960 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,960
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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
Rare enough to double-check
salchichón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,960 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [salʲt͡ʃiˈt͡ʃõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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...".
salchichón has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is salchichón, spelled S-A-L-C-H-I-C-H-Ó-N.
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.
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 “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.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.