escollera

/[eskoˈʝeɾa]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#85,748

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

escollera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fila de escollos unidos o casi unidos. Pronounced [eskoˈʝeɾa].

Key facts for escollera
PropertyValue
Headwordescollera
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[eskoˈʝeɾa]
Letters9
Frequency rank#85,748
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escollera is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskoˈʝeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,748 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for escollera in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 escollera, spelled E-S-C-O-L-L-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fila de escollos unidos o casi unidos.
  2. 2
    Construcción de piedras o bloques arrojadas al fondo del agua para formar un dique o muro que actúa como defensa contra el oleaje y la acción de las corrientes

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #85,748 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escollera"?
"escollera" is spelled E-S-C-O-L-L-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [eskoˈʝeɾa].
What does "escollera" mean?
As a noun, "escollera" means: Fila de escollos unidos o casi unidos.
How do you pronounce "escollera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escollera" is [eskoˈʝeɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escollera" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.