escarcha
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,989
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
escarcha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Capa de hielo cristalino que se forma sobre superficies expuestas a la intemperie que se han enfriado lo suficiente como para provocar la congelación del rocío, o del vapor de agua contenido en el ... Pronounced [esˈkaɾt͡ʃa]. Often confused with escucha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarcha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkaɾt͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escarcha is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkaɾt͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,989 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for escarcha, with forms such as "ecsarcha", "esacrcha", and "escacrha". 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, "escucha", 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 escarcha, spelled E-S-C-A-R-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capa de hielo cristalino que se forma sobre superficies expuestas a la intemperie que se han enfriado lo suficiente como para provocar la congelación del rocío, o del vapor de agua contenido en el aire, depositado en ellas.
- 2El fenómeno climático de reducción de la temperatura hasta el punto de congelación que causa la aparición de escarcha₁.
- 3Brillantina.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsarcha,esacrcha,escacrha,escarcah,escarccha,escarchha,escarhca,escarrcha,esccarcha,escracha,esscarcha,secarcha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escarcha
Misspelling Variants of "escarcha"
Frequency rank: #42,989 in Spanish
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