escasa
[esˈkasa]
The verdict
“escasa” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,016
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino de escaso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escasa · escasa · Spanish
escasa · rank #7,016 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,016
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH energías
Nearest frequency peer: energías (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “escasa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- efectivos
efectivos
92,988 corpus weight
- elaborado
elaborado
92,987 corpus weight
- energías
energías
92,986 corpus weight
- escasa
escasa
92,985 corpus weight
- establecidas
establecidas
92,984 corpus weight
- estuvieran
estuvieran
92,983 corpus weight
What this shows “escasa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escasa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [esˈkasa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “escasa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around escasa (IPA [esˈkasa]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,016 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del femenino de escaso.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for escasa, with forms such as "ecsasa", "esacsa", and "escaas". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "estás", "estaba", "España", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is escasa, spelled E-S-C-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de escaso.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsasa
- esacsa
- escaas
- escassa
- esccasa
- escsaa
- esscasa
- secasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escasa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "escasa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).