escarbar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,381
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
escarbar is aSpanishverb. It means: Rascar y remover de modo repetido la tierra en su superficie, generalmente con las manos o las patas, como lo hacen a veces ciertos animales tales como la gallina buscando lombrices, el toro cuando... Pronounced [eskaɾˈβ̞aɾ]. Often confused with Escobar and escapar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarbar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskaɾˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escarbar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskaɾˈβ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,381 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for escarbar, with forms such as "ecsarbar", "esacrbar", and "escabrar". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Escobar", "escapar", "escalar", 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 escarbar, spelled E-S-C-A-R-B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rascar y remover de modo repetido la tierra en su superficie, generalmente con las manos o las patas, como lo hacen a veces ciertos animales tales como la gallina buscando lombrices, el toro cuando amenaza, el perro enterrando algo, etc.
- 2Remover, sacar poco a poco o revolver cosas contenidas en algo, tales como la suciedad en los oídos o entre los dientes, las cosas de un cajón, los insectos en la corteza de un árbol, etc.
- 3Mover con alguna herramienta (por ejemplo un badil o una paleta de metal), materia combustible, como la leña o los tizones encendidos, para avivar el fuego o la lumbre.
- 4Averiguar, preguntar, indagar o inquirir con curiosidad e insistencia sobre algo secreto, oculto o encubierto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsarbar,esacrbar,escabrar,escarabr,escarbarr,escarbbar,escarbra,escarrbar,escarvar,esccarbar,escrabar,esscarbar,secarbar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escarbar
Misspelling Variants of "escarbar"
Frequency rank: #48,381 in Spanish
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