escaramuza
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,426
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
escaramuza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Combate militar de escasa importancia, especialmente aquel en el que luchan las avanzadillas (grupo de soldados que va adelante del cuerpo principal) de los ejércitos. Pronounced [eskaɾaˈmusa]. Often confused with escaramuzas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escaramuza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eskaɾaˈmusa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escaramuza is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskaɾaˈmusa]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,426 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for escaramuza, with forms such as "ecsaramuza", "esacramuza", and "escaarmuza". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "escaramuzas", 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 escaramuza, spelled E-S-C-A-R-A-M-U-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Combate militar de escasa importancia, especialmente aquel en el que luchan las avanzadillas (grupo de soldados que va adelante del cuerpo principal) de los ejércitos.
- 2Pelea, altercado o riña de poca importancia.
- 3Tipo de enfrentamiento entre combatientes a caballo que acometen y huyen por turnos, picando y evadiendo al contrario de un lado a otro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsaramuza,esacramuza,escaarmuza,escarammuza,escaramuaz,escaramuzza,escaramzua,escaraumza,escarmauza,escarramuza,esccaramuza,escraamuza,esscaramuza,secaramuza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escaramuza
Misspelling Variants of "escaramuza"
Frequency rank: #42,426 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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