yesca
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yesca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝeska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Materia muy seca y preparada de manera que cualquiera chispa de fuego prenda en ella. Comúnmente se hace de trapo quemado, cardo u hongos secos.
- 2Cosa que está sumamente seca, y por lo tanto dispuesta a encenderse o abrasarse.
- 3Incentivo de cualquier pasión o afecto.
- 4Cualquier cosa que excita la gana de beber, y con singularidad, de beber vino.
- 5Pobre, sin dinero.
Frequency rank: #92,579 in Spanish
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