escuchar
[eskuˈt͡ʃaɾ]
The verdict
“escuchar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,089. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,089
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prestar atención a lo que se oye.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escuchar · escuchar · Spanish
escuchar · rank #1,089 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,089
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH encuentran
Nearest frequency peer: encuentran (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “escuchar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- edición
edición
98,914 corpus weight
- encuentran
encuentran
98,913 corpus weight
- escuchar
escuchar
98,912 corpus weight
- informe
informe
98,911 corpus weight
- llegado
llegado
98,910 corpus weight
- Manuel
Manuel
98,909 corpus weight
What this shows “escuchar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escuchar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskuˈt͡ʃaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “escuchar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around escuchar (IPA [eskuˈt͡ʃaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,089 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for escuchar, with forms such as "ecsuchar", "esccuchar", and "esccuhar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "escuché", "escuchó", "escuchas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is escuchar, spelled E-S-C-U-C-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1Prestar atención a lo que se oye.
- 2Atender a un aviso, sugerencia o consejo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsuchar
- esccuchar
- esccuhar
- escucahr
- escucchar
- escucharr
- escuchhar
- escuchra
- escuhcar
- esscuchar
- esucchar
- secuchar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escuchar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "escuchar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).