echelon

//ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn// noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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echelon is aSpanishnoun. It means: Un nivel o rango en una organización, profesión o sociedad: escalón, nivel, grado. Pronounced /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/.

Key facts for echelon
PropertyValue
Headwordechelon
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echelon is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for echelon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for echelon 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 echelon, spelled E-C-H-E-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un nivel o rango en una organización, profesión o sociedad: escalón, nivel, grado.
  2. 2
    Una fila de ciclistas que buscan la máxima tracción con viento cruzado, lo que da como resultado una línea diagonal que cruza la carretera.
  3. 3
    Formación de tropas, barcos, etc. en diagonales paralelas.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echelon"?
"echelon" is spelled E-C-H-E-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/.
What does "echelon" mean?
As a noun, "echelon" means: Un nivel o rango en una organización, profesión o sociedad: escalón, nivel, grado.
How do you pronounce "echelon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echelon" is /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echelon" come from?
"echelon" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.