escafandra
[eskaˈfãn̪d̪ɾa]
The verdict
“escafandra” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,547 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,547
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Equipo acuático que le permite a las personas permanecer un determinado tiempo bajo el agua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escafandra · escafandra · Spanish
escafandra · rank #99,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,547
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escabiando
Nearest frequency peer: escabiando (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “escafandra”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- erosiones
erosiones
458 corpus weight
- escabiando
escabiando
455 corpus weight
- escafandra
escafandra
454 corpus weight
- escaldado
escaldado
453 corpus weight
- escatimado
escatimado
452 corpus weight
- escitas
escitas
451 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “escafandra” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escafandra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eskaˈfãn̪d̪ɾa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “escafandra” en español
Rare enough to double-check
escafandra is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,547 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [eskaˈfãn̪d̪ɾa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for escafandra in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct Spanish form is escafandra, spelled E-S-C-A-F-A-N-D-R-A.
Definition
- 1Equipo acuático que le permite a las personas permanecer un determinado tiempo bajo el agua.
- 2Traje usado por los astronautas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escafandra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
También pinté bajo el agua en Acapulco, con escafandra y pintura al óleo. La Vanguardia (1997).
Ayer, las cosas no comenzaron con buen pie al detectarse fallos en la escafandra de Soloviov que retrasaron dos horas la salida al espacio. La Vanguardia (1997).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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