esquina
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,882
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
esquina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ángulo formado por la convergencia de dos superficies, especialmente muros o paredes. Pronounced [esˈkina]. It ranks #2,882 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with esquiva and esquivo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkina] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for esquina is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkina]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,882 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for esquina, with forms such as "eqsuina", "esqiuna", and "esqquina". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "esquiva", "esquivo", "esquinas", 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 esquina, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ángulo formado por la convergencia de dos superficies, especialmente muros o paredes.
- 2En particular, esquina₁ de dos calles o caminos transversales, en particular la zona en que unen sus aceras.
- 3Proyectil grande de piedra sin labrar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eqsuina,esqiuna,esqquina,esquian,esquinna,esqunia,essquina,esuqina,sequina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esquina
Misspelling Variants of "esquina"
Frequency rank: #2,882 in Spanish
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