escorpión
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,687
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
escorpión is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Orden Scorpiones) Cualquiera de unas 1500 especies de arácnidos caracterizados por dos fuertes pinzas, cuerpo alargado y dividido en dos secciones segmentadas, de las cuales la posterior está rema... Pronounced [eskoɾˈpjõn]. Often confused with escorpiones and Escorpio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escorpión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eskoɾˈpjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escorpión is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskoɾˈpjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,687 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for escorpión, with forms such as "ecsorpión", "esccorpión", and "escoprión". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "escorpiones", "Escorpio", 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 escorpión, spelled E-S-C-O-R-P-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Orden Scorpiones) Cualquiera de unas 1500 especies de arácnidos caracterizados por dos fuertes pinzas, cuerpo alargado y dividido en dos secciones segmentadas, de las cuales la posterior está rematada por un aguijón venenoso. Son predadores nocturnos, predominantemente insectívoros, aunque el veneno de algunas especies es peligroso aún para el ser humano
- 2Antigua máquina de guerra, que debió su nombre a unas tenazas parecidas a las del escorpión₁, con que agarraba las piedras o dardos que arrojaba para el ataque y defensa de plazas
- 3Látigo de varias colas, cada una de ellas rematada por un gancho, que se usaba como instrumento de tortura
- 4Jugada de fútbol consistente en saltar hacia delante con el cuerpo horizontal y, estando en el aire, golpear la pelota con los dos talones o suelas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsorpión,esccorpión,escoprión,escoripón,escorpinó,escorpiónn,escorppión,escorpóin,escorrpión,escropión,esocrpión,esscorpión,secorpión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "escorpión"
Frequency rank: #22,687 in Spanish
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