echan

/[ˈet͡ʃãn]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,806

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

echan is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de echar o de echarse. Pronounced [ˈet͡ʃãn]. It ranks #9,806 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with eran and echo.

Key facts for echan
PropertyValue
Headwordechan
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈet͡ʃãn]
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,806
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for echan is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈet͡ʃãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,806 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de echar o de echarse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for echan, with forms such as "cehan", "ecahn", and "ecchan". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "eran", "echo", "Eche", 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 echan, spelled E-C-H-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de echar o de echarse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cehan,ecahn,ecchan,echann,echhan,echna,ehcan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for echan

Misspelling Variants of "echan"

cehan5ecahn5ecchan6echann6echhan6echna5ehcan5
Misspelling Variants of "echan"

Frequency rank: #9,806 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echan"?
"echan" is spelled E-C-H-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈet͡ʃãn].
What does "echan" mean?
As a verb, "echan" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de echar o de echarse.
What words are commonly confused with "echan"?
"echan" is commonly confused with "eran", "echo", "Eche". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "echan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echan" is [ˈet͡ʃãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echan" come from?
"echan" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.