esquisto

/[esˈkist̪o]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,256

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

esquisto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Roca metamórfica de grado medio, de grano muy fino, textura foliada, compuesta de laminaciones minerales, y que se quiebra con facilidad en hojas planas. Pronounced [esˈkist̪o].

Key facts for esquisto
PropertyValue
Headwordesquisto
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[esˈkist̪o]
Letters8
Frequency rank#52,256
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for esquisto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkist̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,256 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Roca metamórfica de grado medio, de grano muy fino, textura foliada, compuesta de laminaciones minerales, y que se quiebra con facilidad en hojas planas.".

No misspelling variants are generated for esquisto in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 esquisto, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Roca metamórfica de grado medio, de grano muy fino, textura foliada, compuesta de laminaciones minerales, y que se quiebra con facilidad en hojas planas.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #52,256 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esquisto"?
"esquisto" is spelled E-S-Q-U-I-S-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈkist̪o].
What does "esquisto" mean?
As a noun, "esquisto" means: Roca metamórfica de grado medio, de grano muy fino, textura foliada, compuesta de laminaciones minerales, y que se quiebra con facilidad en hojas planas.
How do you pronounce "esquisto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esquisto" is [esˈkist̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esquisto" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.