excusa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,629
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
excusa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Motivo al que se recurre con el fin de eludir una responsabilidad. Evasiva. Pronounced [eksˈkusa]. It ranks #3,629 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with expuso and expuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excusa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eksˈkusa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for excusa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eksˈkusa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,629 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for excusa, with forms such as "ecxusa", "exccusa", and "excsua". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "expuso", "expuse", "excusas", 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 excusa, spelled E-X-C-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Motivo al que se recurre con el fin de eludir una responsabilidad. Evasiva.
- 2Disculpa o justificación.
- 3Motivo para justificar alguna acción.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecxusa,exccusa,excsua,excuas,excussa,exucsa,exxcusa,xecusa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for excusa
Misspelling Variants of "excusa"
Frequency rank: #3,629 in Spanish
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