tizón
[t̪iˈsõn]
The verdict
“tizón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #65,761 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,761
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pedazo de madera parcialmente quemado o en proceso de arder.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tizón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈsõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tizón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tizón is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈsõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,761 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for tizón 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 tizón, spelled T-I-Z-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedazo de madera parcialmente quemado o en proceso de arder.
- 2Mancha en la reputación, aprecio o fama.
- 3(Tilletia spp.) Tipo de hongo de color negruzco que invade los ovarios de algunos cereales, especialmente el trigo.
- 4Nombre común de algunas enfermedades de las plantas provocadas por hongos y bacterias, que se caracterizan por marchitez y manchas en las hojas que recuerdan quemaduras.
- 5Porción de ladrillo o sillar que entra en la fábrica.
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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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Using “tizón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-Z-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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