escalar
[eskaˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“escalar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,597
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magnitud que puede representarse con un único número (única coordenada) invariable en cualquier sistema de referencia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escalar · escalar · Spanish
escalar · rank #12,597 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,597
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH envíos
Nearest frequency peer: envíos (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “escalar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- encarcelado
encarcelado
87,407 corpus weight
- end
end
87,406 corpus weight
- envíos
envíos
87,405 corpus weight
- escalar
escalar
87,404 corpus weight
- escasas
escasas
87,403 corpus weight
- esconden
esconden
87,402 corpus weight
What this shows “escalar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escalar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [eskaˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “escalar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around escalar (IPA [eskaˈlaɾ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,597 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Magnitud que puede representarse con un único número (única coordenada) invariable en cualquier sistema de referencia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for escalar, with forms such as "ecsalar", "esaclar", and "escaalr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "escasa", "escola", "Escolar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is escalar, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Magnitud que puede representarse con un único número (única coordenada) invariable en cualquier sistema de referencia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escalar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La masa de un cuerpo y la energía de un sistema, son magnitudes escalares.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsalar
- esaclar
- escaalr
- escalarr
- escallar
- escalra
- esccalar
- esclaar
- esscalar
- secalar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escalar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "escalar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).