echen

/[ˈet͡ʃẽn]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,346

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

echen is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de echar o de echarse. Pronounced [ˈet͡ʃẽn]. Often confused with echo and edén.

Key facts for echen
PropertyValue
Headwordechen
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈet͡ʃẽn]
Letters5
Frequency rank#14,346
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for echen is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈet͡ʃẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,346 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for echen, with forms such as "cehen", "ecchen", and "ecehn". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "echo", "edén", "even", 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 echen, spelled E-C-H-E-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 subjuntivo de echar o de echarse.
  2. 2
    Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de echar o del imperativo negativo de echarse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cehen,ecchen,ecehn,echenn,echhen,echne,ehcen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for echen

Misspelling Variants of "echen"

cehen5ecchen6ecehn5echenn6echhen6echne5ehcen5
Misspelling Variants of "echen"

Frequency rank: #14,346 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Spanish index:

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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.