escasear
[eskaseˈaɾ]
The verdict
“escasear” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,746 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,746
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faltar, ir a menos una cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escasear · escasear · Spanish
escasear · rank #72,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,746
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escupí
Nearest frequency peer: escupí (+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 “escasear”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- entretenía
entretenía
27,261 corpus weight
- envolvieron
envolvieron
27,260 corpus weight
- Erie
Erie
27,258 corpus weight
- ermitaños
ermitaños
27,257 corpus weight
- escasear
escasear
27,255 corpus weight
- escupí
escupí
27,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “escasear” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escasear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskaseˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “escasear” en español
Rare enough to double-check
escasear is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,746 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [eskaseˈaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faltar, ir a menos una cosa.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for escasear, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is escasear, spelled E-S-C-A-S-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Faltar, ir a menos una cosa.
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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