yesca

/[ˈʝeska]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#92,579

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

yesca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Materia muy seca y preparada de manera que cualquiera chispa de fuego prenda en ella. Comúnmente se hace de trapo quemado, cardo u hongos secos. Pronounced [ˈʝeska].

Key facts for yesca
PropertyValue
Headwordyesca
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʝeska]
Letters5
Frequency rank#92,579
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for yesca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝeska]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,579 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for yesca in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 yesca, spelled Y-E-S-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Materia muy seca y preparada de manera que cualquiera chispa de fuego prenda en ella. Comúnmente se hace de trapo quemado, cardo u hongos secos.
  2. 2
    Cosa que está sumamente seca, y por lo tanto dispuesta a encenderse o abrasarse.
  3. 3
    Incentivo de cualquier pasión o afecto.
  4. 4
    Cualquier cosa que excita la gana de beber, y con singularidad, de beber vino.
  5. 5
    Pobre, sin dinero.

Frequency rank: #92,579 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yesca"?
"yesca" is spelled Y-E-S-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʝeska].
What does "yesca" mean?
As a noun, "yesca" means: Materia muy seca y preparada de manera que cualquiera chispa de fuego prenda en ella. Comúnmente se hace de trapo quemado, cardo u hongos secos.
How do you pronounce "yesca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yesca" is [ˈʝeska]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "yesca" come from?
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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.