esclusa

/[esˈklusa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,011

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

esclusa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sección de un canal navegable, que cerrada con compuertas permite el pasaje entre dos cuerpos de agua a niveles distintos. Pronounced [esˈklusa].

Key facts for esclusa
PropertyValue
Headwordesclusa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[esˈklusa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,011
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of esclusa in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for esclusa is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈklusa]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,011 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sección de un canal navegable, que cerrada con compuertas permite el pasaje entre dos cuerpos de agua a niveles distintos.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for esclusa in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 esclusa, spelled E-S-C-L-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sección de un canal navegable, que cerrada con compuertas permite el pasaje entre dos cuerpos de agua a niveles distintos.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #60,011 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esclusa"?
"esclusa" is spelled E-S-C-L-U-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈklusa].
What does "esclusa" mean?
As a noun, "esclusa" means: Sección de un canal navegable, que cerrada con compuertas permite el pasaje entre dos cuerpos de agua a niveles distintos.
How do you pronounce "esclusa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esclusa" is [esˈklusa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esclusa" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.