escama
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,299
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
escama is aSpanishnoun. It means: Membrana córnea, delgada y en forma de escudete, que, imbricada con otras muchas de su clase, suele cubrir total o parcialmente la piel de algunos animales, y principalmente la de los peces y repti... Pronounced [esˈkama].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkama] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escama is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkama]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for escama in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 escama, spelled E-S-C-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membrana córnea, delgada y en forma de escudete, que, imbricada con otras muchas de su clase, suele cubrir total o parcialmente la piel de algunos animales, y principalmente la de los peces y reptiles.
- 2Lo que tiene figura de escama.
- 3Cada una de las launas de hierro o acero en figura de escama que forman la loriga.
- 4Lámina formada por células epidérmicas muertas que se desprenden de la piel.
- 5Lámina microscópica presente en las alas de las mariposas.
- 6Órgano escarioso o membranoso semejante a una hoja pequeña.
- 7Recelo que uno tiene por el daño o molestia que otro le ha causado, o por el que teme.
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Frequency rank: #56,299 in Spanish
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