escapar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,404
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
escapar is aSpanishverb. It means: Salir de un encierro o peligro. Pronounced [eskaˈpaɾ]. It ranks #3,404 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with escape and escasa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escapar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskaˈpaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escapar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskaˈpaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,404 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for escapar, with forms such as "ecsapar", "esacpar", and "escaapr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "escape", "escasa", "escapo", 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 escapar, spelled E-S-C-A-P-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Salir de un encierro o peligro.
- 2Salir con prisa.
- 3Escribir una secuencia de caracteres que permitan codificar un caracter reservado para la sintaxis del lenguaje y que por lo tanto no podría escribirse directamente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsapar,esacpar,escaapr,escaparr,escappar,escapra,esccapar,escpaar,esscapar,secapar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escapar
Misspelling Variants of "escapar"
Frequency rank: #3,404 in Spanish
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