escritura
Spanish, noun
escritura is spelled E-S-C-R-I-T-U-R-A (9 letters) and appears 27 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,046th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escritura is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “document, deed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of escriturar. With an accent, escriturá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of escriturar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sistema de representación gráfica de una lengua, por medio de signos grabados o dibujados”.
What does escritura mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedocument, deed
- 2
femininewriting
- 3
femininescripture
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of escriturar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sistema de representación gráfica de una lengua, por medio de signos grabados o dibujados. 2. Documento que se archiva para consulta pública y que ha sido firmado por un notario. 3. El acto y resultado de escribir. 4. Forma de trazar o dibujar los signos de la escritura₁.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escritura
- escrituras plural
- escriptura alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to escritura
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escritura in Spanish?
escritura appears 27 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).