escoba
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,535
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
escoba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de limpieza utilizado para remover del piso, el polvo y basura en general. Esta compuesto por un palo en cuyo extremo se encuentra un haz de fibras. Pronounced [esˈkoβ̞a]. Often confused with estaba and esposa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escoba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkoβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escoba is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkoβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,535 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for escoba, with forms such as "ecsoba", "escboa", and "esccoba". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "estaba", "esposa", "escoge", 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 escoba, spelled E-S-C-O-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de limpieza utilizado para remover del piso, el polvo y basura en general. Esta compuesto por un palo en cuyo extremo se encuentra un haz de fibras.
- 2Juego de naipes con baraja española en el que dos jugadores intentan llevarse las cartas de la mesa formando combinaciones que sumen exactamante quince puntos entre la carta que se juega de la mano y una o más cartas que haya en la mesa.
- 3En el juego de la escoba, acción de llevarse todas las cartas que hay en la mesa, cuando todas, incluyendo la carta jugada, suman exactamente quince puntos.
- 4Nombre común de varios arbustos con cuyas ramas se hacía el instrumento de limpieza.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsoba,escboa,esccoba,escoab,escobba,escova,esocba,esscoba,secoba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "escoba"
Frequency rank: #18,535 in Spanish
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