carestía
[kaɾesˈt̪ia]
The verdict
“carestía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,645 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,645
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausencia o menos cantidad de la necesaria de algo, en especial de víveres.
Corpus desk
Index ES-carestia · carestía · Spanish
carestía · rank #63,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,645
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH careciendo
Nearest frequency peer: careciendo (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “carestía”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- captas
captas
36,361 corpus weight
- capuchas
capuchas
36,359 corpus weight
- carambola
carambola
36,358 corpus weight
- careciendo
careciendo
36,357 corpus weight
- carestía
carestía
36,356 corpus weight
- Casanovas
Casanovas
36,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “carestía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carestía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾesˈt̪ia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “carestía” en español
Rare enough to double-check
carestía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,645 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaɾesˈt̪ia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carestía, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is carestía, spelled C-A-R-E-S-T-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Ausencia o menos cantidad de la necesaria de algo, en especial de víveres.
- 2Precio elevado de los productos de uso habitual, motivado de la falta de ellas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carestía appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cuando comienza el año en miércoles, es señal de grandes catástrofes marítimas, de muchos días de tempestad y relámpagos, de carestía de cereales y de que los reponches y las cebollas subirán mucho de precio.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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