escritorio
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,504
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
escritorio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mueble cerrado, con divisiones en su parte interior para guardar papeles y, a veces, con un tablero sobre el cual se escribe. Pronounced [eskɾiˈt̪oɾjo]. It ranks #5,504 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with escritorios and escritor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escritorio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eskɾiˈt̪oɾjo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for escritorio is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskɾiˈt̪oɾjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,504 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for escritorio, with forms such as "ecsritorio", "esccritorio", and "escirtorio". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "escritorios", "escritor", "escritora", 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 escritorio, spelled E-S-C-R-I-T-O-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mueble cerrado, con divisiones en su parte interior para guardar papeles y, a veces, con un tablero sobre el cual se escribe.
- 2Lugar de acceso rápido a lo que se deje en el mismo en un sistema operativo de computadora de escritorio.
- 3Aposento donde tienen su despacho los hombres de negocios; como los banqueros, los notarios, los comerciantes, etc.
- 4Mesa en dicho aposento₃.
- 5Mueble de madera, comúnmente con embutidos de marfil, concha u otros adornos de taracea, y con gavetas o cajones pequeños para guardar joyas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsritorio,esccritorio,escirtorio,escriotrio,escritoiro,escritoroi,escritorrio,escritroio,escrittorio,escrritorio,escrtiorio,esrcitorio,esscritorio,secritorio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escritorio
Misspelling Variants of "escritorio"
Frequency rank: #5,504 in Spanish
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