excava
[eksˈkaβ̞a]
The verdict
“excava” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,930 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,930
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de sacar parte de la tierra alrededor de ciertas plantas para estimular su desarrollo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-excava · excava · Spanish
excava · rank #82,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,930
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH excederá
Nearest frequency peer: excederá (+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 “excava”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- evidenciada
evidenciada
17,074 corpus weight
- evocó
evocó
17,073 corpus weight
- excava
excava
17,071 corpus weight
- excederá
excederá
17,070 corpus weight
- excitando
excitando
17,069 corpus weight
- expansivas
expansivas
17,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “excava” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excava |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eksˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “excava” en español
Rare enough to double-check
excava is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,930 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [eksˈkaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acción o efecto de sacar parte de la tierra alrededor de ciertas plantas para estimular su desarrollo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for excava in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is excava, spelled E-X-C-A-V-A.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de sacar parte de la tierra alrededor de ciertas plantas para estimular su desarrollo.
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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