escuchan

/[esˈkut͡ʃãn]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,427

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

escuchan is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escuchar. Pronounced [esˈkut͡ʃãn]. It ranks #7,427 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with escuché and escuchó.

Key facts for escuchan
PropertyValue
Headwordescuchan
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[esˈkut͡ʃãn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,427
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escuchan is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkut͡ʃãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,427 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escuchar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for escuchan, with forms such as "ecsuchan", "esccuchan", and "esccuhan". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "escuché", "escuchó", "escuchar", 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 escuchan, spelled E-S-C-U-C-H-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escuchar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsuchan,esccuchan,esccuhan,escucahn,escucchan,escuchann,escuchhan,escuchna,escuhcan,esscuchan,esucchan,secuchan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escuchan

Misspelling Variants of "escuchan"

ecsuchan8esccuchan9esccuhan8escucahn8escucchan9escuchann9escuchhan9escuchna8
Misspelling Variants of "escuchan"

Frequency rank: #7,427 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escuchan"?
"escuchan" is spelled E-S-C-U-C-H-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈkut͡ʃãn].
What does "escuchan" mean?
As a verb, "escuchan" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de escuchar.
What words are commonly confused with "escuchan"?
"escuchan" is commonly confused with "escuché", "escuchó", "escuchar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escuchan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escuchan" is [esˈkut͡ʃãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escuchan" come from?
"escuchan" 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.