escombro
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,135
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
escombro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Resto de la construcción o de la demolición de una obra de albañilería. Pronounced [esˈkõmbɾo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escombro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkõmbɾo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escombro is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkõmbɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,135 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for escombro 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 escombro, spelled E-S-C-O-M-B-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Resto de la construcción o de la demolición de una obra de albañilería.
- 2Resto de la explotación de una cantera o de una mina.
- 3Uva pasa de descarte, que se vende como alimento de segunda o para elaboración de vino.
- 4Especie de pez azul, de porte longilíneo y cilíndrico, con vetas oscuras verticales en el lomo, comestible, de la familia Scombridae.
- 5Pedúnculo y semillas de pimientos secos.
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Frequency rank: #66,135 in Spanish
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