escabechina
Spanish, noun/eskabeˈt͡ʃina/
escabechina is spelled E-S-C-A-B-E-C-H-I-N-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written Spanish, the 193,839th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escabechina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “slaughter, destruction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Matanza de mucha gente, especialmente de aquellos que no pueden defenderse”.
What does escabechina mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfeminineslaughter, destruction
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matanza de mucha gente, especialmente de aquellos que no pueden defenderse. 2. Gran cantidad de suspensos en una clase.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escabechina
- escabechinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escabechina?
- /eskabeˈt͡ʃina/
- [es.ka.β̞eˈt͡ʃi.na]
- [eskaβ̞eˈt͡ʃina]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escabechina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escabechina in Spanish?
escabechina appears about once in every 29 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).