talón
[t̪aˈlõn]
The verdict
“talón” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,174
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte posterior del pie con la que se pisa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-talon · talón · Spanish
talón · rank #21,174 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,174
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH sumamos
Nearest frequency peer: sumamos (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “talón”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- solicitamos
solicitamos
78,831 corpus weight
- stream
stream
78,830 corpus weight
- sumamos
sumamos
78,829 corpus weight
- talón
talón
78,827 corpus weight
- temblores
temblores
78,825 corpus weight
- tiraba
tiraba
78,823 corpus weight
What this shows “talón” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪aˈlõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “talón”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around talón (IPA [t̪aˈlõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,174 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for talón, with forms such as "atlón", "tallón", and "talnó". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tan", "ton", "tano", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is talón, spelled T-A-L-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Parte posterior del pie con la que se pisa.
- 2Parte del calzado que cubre el calcañar.
- 3Sitio blando y flexible que tienen los cascos de las caballerías en la parte inferior y posterior.
- 4Parte del arco del violín y de otros instrumentos semejantes, inmediata al mango.
- 5Moldura sinuosa cuyo perfil se compone de dos arcos de círculo contrapuestos y unidos entre sí, y que terminan a escuadra con las rectas que limitan dicha moldura.
- 6Libranza a la vista, que consiste en una hoja cortada con tijera de un libro, de modo que, aplicándola al pedazo de la misma que queda cosida al libro, se acredite su legitimidad o falsedad.
- 7Documento o resguardo expedido en la misma forma.
- 8Corte oblicuo en la extremídad posterior de la quilla, que se ajusta a otro hecho en el chaflán anterior de la madre del timón.
- 9Trozo de código usado como sustituto de alguna otra funcionalidad, para simular el comportamiento de código existente (tal como un procedimiento en una máquina remota) o ser el sustituto temporal para un código aún no desarrollado.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atlón
- tallón
- talnó
- talónn
- taóln
- tlaón
- ttalón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of talón - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "talón", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).