escotilla

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escotilla is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskoˈt̪iʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,487 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Abertura grande, cuadrada o rectangular que se deja en varios puntos de las crujías de todas las cubiertas, para bajar a las inferiores e introducir y extraer efectos de armamento o carga. Toma el ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for escotilla 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 escotilla, spelled E-S-C-O-T-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.