escarbando
[eskaɾˈβ̞ãn̪d̪o]
The verdict
“escarbando” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,620 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,620
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerundio de escarbar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escarbando · escarbando · Spanish
escarbando · rank #73,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,620
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escabroso
Nearest frequency peer: escabroso (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “escarbando”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- errando
errando
26,384 corpus weight
- eructo
eructo
26,383 corpus weight
- escabroso
escabroso
26,382 corpus weight
- escarbando
escarbando
26,381 corpus weight
- escoto
escoto
26,380 corpus weight
- escrupuloso
escrupuloso
26,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “escarbando” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarbando |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskaɾˈβ̞ãn̪d̪o] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “escarbando” en español
Rare enough to double-check
escarbando is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,620 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [eskaɾˈβ̞ãn̪d̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerundio de escarbar.".
escarbando has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is escarbando, spelled E-S-C-A-R-B-A-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1Gerundio de escarbar.
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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