sifón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,556
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sifón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tubo encorvado que sirve para sacar líquidos del vaso que los contiene, haciéndolos pasar por un punto superior a su nivel. Pronounced [siˈfõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sifón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈfõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sifón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈfõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,556 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for sifón 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 sifón, spelled S-I-F-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tubo encorvado que sirve para sacar líquidos del vaso que los contiene, haciéndolos pasar por un punto superior a su nivel.
- 2Tubo doblemente acodado en que el agua detenida dentro de él impide la salida de los gases de las cañerías al exterior.
- 3Botella, generalmente de cristal, cerrada herméticamente con una tapa por la que pasa un sifón, cuyo tubo tiene una llave para abrir o cerrar el paso del agua cargada de ácido carbónico que aquélla contiene.
- 4Canal cerrado o tubo que sirve para hacer pasar el agua por un punto inferior a sus dos extremos.
Frequency rank: #52,556 in Spanish
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