escritor

/[eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,770

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

escritor is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias. Pronounced [eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]. It ranks #1,770 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with escroto and escritos.

Key facts for escritor
PropertyValue
Headwordescritor
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,770
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of escritor in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escritor is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,770 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for escritor, with forms such as "ecsritor", "esccritor", and "escirtor". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "escroto", "escritos", "Escultor", and more, 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 escritor, spelled E-S-C-R-I-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsritor,esccritor,escirtor,escriotr,escritorr,escritro,escrittor,escrritor,escrtior,esrcitor,esscritor,secritor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escritor

Misspelling Variants of "escritor"

ecsritor8esccritor9escirtor8escriotr8escritorr9escritro8escrittor9escrritor9
Misspelling Variants of "escritor"

Frequency rank: #1,770 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escritor"?
"escritor" is spelled E-S-C-R-I-T-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [eskɾiˈt̪oɾ].
What does "escritor" mean?
As a noun, "escritor" means: Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias.
What words are commonly confused with "escritor"?
"escritor" is commonly confused with "escroto", "escritos", "Escultor". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escritor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escritor" is [eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escritor" come from?
"escritor" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.