talón
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,174
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
talón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte posterior del pie con la que se pisa. Pronounced [t̪aˈlõn]. Often confused with tan and ton.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for talón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aˈlõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,174 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 talón, with forms such as "atlón", "tallón", and "talnó". 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", "tano", 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 talón, spelled T-A-L-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atlón,tallón,talnó,talónn,taóln,tlaón,ttalón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for talón
Misspelling Variants of "talón"
Frequency rank: #21,174 in Spanish
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