escafoides
Spanish, noun/eskaˈfoides/
escafoides is spelled E-S-C-A-F-O-I-D-E-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 123,873rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escafoides is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “scaphoid bone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of escafoide. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hueso del carpo, en la mano, es el de mayor tamaño y posición más externa, par, corto, esponjoso, de forma…”.
What does escafoides mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescaphoid bone
adjective
- 1
plural of escafoide
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hueso del carpo, en la mano, es el de mayor tamaño y posición más externa, par, corto, esponjoso, de forma cuboidea, con seis caras de las cuales tres son articulares. 2. Hueso del pie, corto, par. asimétrico; tiene dos caras, anterior y posterior; dos bordes, superior e inferior, y dos extremos, externo e interno. Se encuentra en la cara interna de la segunda fila del tarso
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.
How do you pronounce escafoides?
- /eskaˈfoides/
- [es.kaˈfoi̯.ð̞es]
- [eskaˈfojð̞es]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escafoides in Spanish?
escafoides appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).