tacón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,581
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tacón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza fijada a la suela del calzado, debajo del talón del pie, para dar soporte a este Pronounced [t̪aˈkõn]. Often confused with tan and ton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tacón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪aˈkõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tacón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aˈkõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,581 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 tacón, with forms such as "atcón", "taccón", and "tacnó". 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, "tan", "ton", "toco", 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 tacón, spelled T-A-C-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza fijada a la suela del calzado, debajo del talón del pie, para dar soporte a este
- 2Por antonomasia, tipo de calzado cuyo tacón₁ levanta el talón del pie significativamente más arriba que los dedos. De uso netamente femenino.
- 3Armazón de barras en que se coloca un pliego para meterlo a la prensa
- 4Topes que fijan un pliego en la posición deseada al meterlo a imprimir
- 5Corte al bies en el extremo posterior de la quilla de algunos barcos, correspondiente a otro hecho en la parte anterior de la madre del timón
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atcón,taccón,tacnó,tacónn,taócn,tcaón,ttacón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tacón
Misspelling Variants of "tacón"
Frequency rank: #28,581 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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