tritón
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tritón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ɾiˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Cada 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.
- 2Anfibio urodelo de hábitos acuáticos. Muy ágil en el agua, de la que rara vez sale, es muy torpe en tierra.
- 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
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