escalan
[esˈkalãn]
The verdict
“escalan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,204 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,204
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escalar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escalan · escalan · Spanish
escalan · rank #78,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,204
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escalamiento
Nearest frequency peer: escalamiento (-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 “escalan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- erigidas
erigidas
21,800 corpus weight
- escalamiento
escalamiento
21,798 corpus weight
- escalan
escalan
21,797 corpus weight
- escamosa
escamosa
21,796 corpus weight
- escapados
escapados
21,795 corpus weight
- escocesas
escocesas
21,794 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “escalan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escalan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [esˈkalãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “escalan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
escalan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,204 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [esˈkalãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escalar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for escalan, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is escalan, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escalar.
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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