escribanía
[eskɾiβ̞aˈnia]
The verdict
“escribanía” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #76,309 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #76,309
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oficio que ejercen los escribanos públicos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escribanía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eskɾiβ̞aˈnia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “escribanía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escribanía is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskɾiβ̞aˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #76,309 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for escribanía, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is escribanía, spelled E-S-C-R-I-B-A-N-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Oficio que ejercen los escribanos públicos.
- 2Aposento donde el escribano tiene su despacho, y donde están los protocolos y demás papeles pertenecientes a su oficio.
- 3Oficio u oficina del secretario judicial, a quien vulgarmente se sigue denominando como de antiguo en los juzgados de primera instancia e instrucción.
- 4Escritorio (mueble).
- 5Recado de escribir, generalmente compuesto de tintero, salvadera y otras piezas, y colocado en un pie o platillo.
- 6Caja portátil que traían pendiente de una cinta los escribanos y los niños de la escuela, en que había un estuche para las plumas y un tintero con su tapa.
- 7Notaría.
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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Using “escribanía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-S-C-R-I-B-A-N-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [eskɾiβ̞aˈnia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.