escriba
[esˈkɾiβ̞a]
The verdict
“escriba” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,949
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que tiene por oficio copiar a mano escritos ajenos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escriba · escriba · Spanish
escriba · rank #8,949 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,949
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escogido
Nearest frequency peer: escogido (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “escriba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- enseñan
enseñan
91,055 corpus weight
- enteras
enteras
91,054 corpus weight
- escogido
escogido
91,053 corpus weight
- escriba
escriba
91,052 corpus weight
- estructural
estructural
91,051 corpus weight
- estuviese
estuviese
91,050 corpus weight
What this shows “escriba” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escriba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkɾiβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “escriba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around escriba (IPA [esˈkɾiβ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,949 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for escriba, with forms such as "ecsriba", "esccriba", and "escirba". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "escrito", "escribe", "escrita", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is escriba, spelled E-S-C-R-I-B-A.
Definition
- 1Persona que tiene por oficio copiar a mano escritos ajenos.
- 2Entre los hebreos persona experta en la interpretación de la ley o Sagradas Escrituras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escriba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Los papiros desechados por los escribas se machacaban junto con otras fibras vegetales como el lino hasta hacer una pasta base, que se moldeaba usando una técnica similar al papel-maché».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsriba
- esccriba
- escirba
- escrbia
- escriab
- escribba
- escriva
- escrriba
- esrciba
- esscriba
- secriba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escriba - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).