tacón
Spanish, noun/taˈkon/
tacón is spelled T-A-C-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 28,265th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tacón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “heel (part of a shoe's sole)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pieza fijada a la suela del calzado, debajo del talón del pie, para dar soporte a este”.
What does tacón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheel (part of a shoe's sole)
- 2
Mexicomasculinehigh heel
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pieza fijada a la suela del calzado, debajo del talón del pie, para dar soporte a este 2. Por antonomasia, tipo de calzado cuyo tacón₁ levanta el talón del pie significativamente más arriba que los dedos. De uso netamente femenino. 3. Armazón de barras en que se coloca un pliego para meterlo a la prensa 4. Topes que fijan un pliego en la posición deseada al meterlo a imprimir
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tacón
- tacones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tacón?
- /taˈkon/
- [t̪aˈkõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tacón in Spanish?
tacón appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).