"escalafón" meaning in Spanish

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "escalafó",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: escalafó",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: escalafó"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from escala (“ladder”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "escalafones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "escalafón m (plural escalafones)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "es‧ca‧la‧fón"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "escalafonamiento"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ranking, hierarchy; an echelon"
      ],
      "id": "en-escalafón-es-noun-VVKx63r9",
      "links": [
        [
          "ranking",
          "ranking"
        ],
        [
          "hierarchy",
          "hierarchy"
        ],
        [
          "echelon",
          "echelon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/eskalaˈfon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[es.ka.laˈfõn]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "escalafón"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "escalafonamiento"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "escalafó",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: escalafó",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: escalafó"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from escala (“ladder”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "escalafones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "escalafón m (plural escalafones)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "es‧ca‧la‧fón"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Spanish/on",
        "Rhymes:Spanish/on/4 syllables",
        "Spanish 4-syllable words",
        "Spanish countable nouns",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish masculine nouns",
        "Spanish nouns",
        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ranking, hierarchy; an echelon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ranking",
          "ranking"
        ],
        [
          "hierarchy",
          "hierarchy"
        ],
        [
          "echelon",
          "echelon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/eskalaˈfon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[es.ka.laˈfõn]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "escalafón"
}