escasez
Spanish, noun/eskaˈseθ/
escasez is spelled E-S-C-A-S-E-Z (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,469th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escasez is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “shortage, scarcity, paucity, dearth, scarceness, scantiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Condición o carácter de escaso”.
What does escasez mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshortage, scarcity, paucity, dearth, scarceness, scantiness
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Condición o carácter de escaso
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escasez
- escaseces plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escasez?
- /eskaˈseθ/
- [es.kaˈseθ]
- /eskaˈses/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escasez
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escasez in Spanish?
escasez appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).