escalera

/[eskaˈleɾa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,502

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

escalera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Construcción formada por una serie de escalones, permitiendo al usuario desplazarse entre los distintos planos de un edificio o lugar. Pronounced [eskaˈleɾa]. It ranks #5,502 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with escáner and escasea.

Key facts for escalera
PropertyValue
Headwordescalera
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[eskaˈleɾa]
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,502
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of escalera in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escalera is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskaˈleɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,502 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for escalera, with forms such as "ecsalera", "esaclera", and "escaelra". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "escáner", "escasea", "Escalona", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is escalera, spelled E-S-C-A-L-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Construcción formada por una serie de escalones, permitiendo al usuario desplazarse entre los distintos planos de un edificio o lugar.
  2. 2
    Utensilio portátil, formado por dos listones unidos por travesaños, proporcionando un medio para escalar.
  3. 3
    Conjunto de fichas o cartas de valor correlativo, formando una única jugada en algunos juegos de azar o habilidad.
  4. 4
    Combinación que se obtiene con cinco cartas consecutivas en número, con la salvedad de que si se usa un as debe estar al principio (A-2-3-4-5) o al final (10-J-Q-K-A). Es inmediatamente superior al trío e inmediatamente más débil que el color.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsalera,esaclera,escaelra,escalear,escalerra,escallera,escalrea,esccalera,esclaera,esscalera,secalera

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escalera

Misspelling Variants of "escalera"

ecsalera8esaclera8escaelra8escalear8escalerra9escallera9escalrea8esccalera9
Misspelling Variants of "escalera"

Frequency rank: #5,502 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escalera"?
"escalera" is spelled E-S-C-A-L-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [eskaˈleɾa].
What does "escalera" mean?
As a noun, "escalera" means: Construcción formada por una serie de escalones, permitiendo al usuario desplazarse entre los distintos planos de un edificio o lugar.
What words are commonly confused with "escalera"?
"escalera" is commonly confused with "escáner", "escasea", "Escalona". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escalera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escalera" is [eskaˈleɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escalera" come from?
"escalera" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.