esquisto
[esˈkist̪o]
The verdict
“esquisto” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,256 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,256
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roca metamórfica de grado medio, de grano muy fino, textura foliada, compuesta de laminaciones minerales, y que se quiebra con facilidad en hojas planas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-esquisto · esquisto · Spanish
esquisto · rank #52,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,256
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH establecían
Nearest frequency peer: establecían (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “esquisto”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- especificad…
especificadas
47,749 corpus weight
- especulativ…
especulativos
47,748 corpus weight
- esperarán
esperarán
47,747 corpus weight
- esquisto
esquisto
47,745 corpus weight
- establecían
establecían
47,744 corpus weight
- estaciona
estaciona
47,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “esquisto” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquisto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈkist̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “esquisto” en español
Rare enough to double-check
esquisto is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,256 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [esˈkist̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roca metamórfica de grado medio, de grano muy fino, textura foliada, compuesta de laminaciones minerales, y que se quiebra con facilidad en hojas planas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for esquisto, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is esquisto, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Roca 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
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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