esgrima
[esˈɣ̞ɾima]
The verdict
“esgrima” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,144. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,144
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arte de jugar y manejar la espada, el sable y otras armas blancas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-esgrima · esgrima · Spanish
esgrima · rank #24,144 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escupir
Nearest frequency peer: escupir (-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 “esgrima”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ensaladas
ensaladas
75,860 corpus weight
- escupir
escupir
75,858 corpus weight
- esgrima
esgrima
75,857 corpus weight
- especificac…
especificación
75,856 corpus weight
- estéticos
estéticos
75,855 corpus weight
- examinando
examinando
75,854 corpus weight
What this shows “esgrima” 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 | esgrima |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈɣ̞ɾima] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “esgrima”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around esgrima (IPA [esˈɣ̞ɾima]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,144 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for esgrima, with forms such as "egsrima", "esggrima", and "esgirma". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "estima", "escrita", "escriba", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is esgrima, spelled E-S-G-R-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Arte de jugar y manejar la espada, el sable y otras armas blancas.
- 2Deporte de combate, donde se enfrentan dos contrincantes que deben intentar tocarse con un arma blanca (pero sin que el arma posea ni filo ni punta; es decir, que no se puede cortar ni pinchar con ella).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egsrima
- esggrima
- esgirma
- esgriam
- esgrimma
- esgrmia
- esgrrima
- esrgima
- essgrima
- segrima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of esgrima - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "esgrima", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).