esquivar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,724
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
esquivar is aSpanishverb. It means: Buscar o lograr no encontrarse o chocar con algo o alguien Pronounced [eskiˈβ̞aɾ]. Often confused with esquivo and Esquivel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquivar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskiˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for esquivar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskiˈβ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,724 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for esquivar, with forms such as "eqsuivar", "esqiuvar", and "esqquivar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "esquivo", "Esquivel", "esquina", 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 esquivar, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-V-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Buscar o lograr no encontrarse o chocar con algo o alguien
- 2Más generalmente, buscar o lograr que algo no suceda
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eqsuivar,esqiuvar,esqquivar,esquiavr,esquibar,esquivarr,esquivra,esquivvar,esquviar,essquivar,esuqivar,sequivar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "esquivar"
Frequency rank: #19,724 in Spanish
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