tritón

/[t̪ɾiˈt̪õn]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#55,283

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tritón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de las deidades marinas de la mitología griega, que eran hijos de Posidón (Poseidón). Su aspecto físico era el de hombres hasta la cintura y de allí hacia abajo tenían forma de pez. Pronounced [t̪ɾiˈt̪õn].

Key facts for tritón
PropertyValue
Headwordtritón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t̪ɾiˈt̪õn]
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,283
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tritón in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tritón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ɾiˈt̪õn]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,283 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tritón in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tritón, spelled T-R-I-T-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cada una de las deidades marinas de la mitología griega, que eran hijos de Posidón (Poseidón). Su aspecto físico era el de hombres hasta la cintura y de allí hacia abajo tenían forma de pez.
  2. 2
    Anfibio urodelo de hábitos acuáticos. Muy ágil en el agua, de la que rara vez sale, es muy torpe en tierra.
  3. 3
    (Charonia) Cualquiera de los moluscos gasterópodos de la familia Charoniidae; tienen grandes caparazones fusiformes, generalmente blanquecinos con marcas marrones o amarillas.

Frequency rank: #55,283 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tritón"?
"tritón" is spelled T-R-I-T-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪ɾiˈt̪õn].
What does "tritón" mean?
As a noun, "tritón" means: Cada una de las deidades marinas de la mitología griega, que eran hijos de Posidón (Poseidón). Su aspecto físico era el de hombres hasta la cintura y de allí hacia abajo tenían forma de pez.
How do you pronounce "tritón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tritón" is [t̪ɾiˈt̪õn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tritón" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.