school

//skuːl// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,717

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

school is aSpanishnoun. It means: Escuela, instituto, colegio. Pronounced /skuːl/. It ranks #8,717 in Spanish word frequency.

Key facts for school
PropertyValue
Headwordschool
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/skuːl/
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,717
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for school is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /skuːl/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,717 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for school, with forms such as "cshool", "scchool", and "schhool". 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 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 school, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Escuela, instituto, colegio.
  2. 2
    Cardumen, banco de peces u otros animales acuáticos.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cshool,scchool,schhool,schol,scholo,schooll,scohol,shcool,sschool

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for school

Misspelling Variants of "school"

cshool6scchool7schhool7schol5scholo6schooll7scohol6shcool6
Misspelling Variants of "school"

Frequency rank: #8,717 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "school"?
"school" is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is /skuːl/.
What does "school" mean?
As a noun, "school" means: Escuela, instituto, colegio.
What are common misspellings of "school"?
Common misspellings include "cshool", "scchool", "schhool", "schol", "scholo". The correct spelling is "school".
How do you pronounce "school"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "school" is /skuːl/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "school" come from?
"school" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.