escasos

/[esˈkasos]/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,424

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

escasos is anSpanishadj. It means: Forma del plural de escaso. Pronounced [esˈkasos]. It ranks #7,424 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with estamos and Estados.

Key facts for escasos
PropertyValue
Headwordescasos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[esˈkasos]
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,424
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of escasos in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escasos is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈkasos]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,424 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de escaso.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for escasos, with forms such as "ecsasos", "esacsos", and "escaoss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "estamos", "Estados", "escudos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is escasos, spelled E-S-C-A-S-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de escaso.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsasos,esacsos,escaoss,escasoss,escasso,escassos,esccasos,escsaos,esscasos,secasos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escasos

Misspelling Variants of "escasos"

ecsasos7esacsos7escaoss7escasoss8escasso7escassos8esccasos8escsaos7
Misspelling Variants of "escasos"

Frequency rank: #7,424 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escasos"?
"escasos" is spelled E-S-C-A-S-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈkasos].
What does "escasos" mean?
As an adj, "escasos" means: Forma del plural de escaso.
What words are commonly confused with "escasos"?
"escasos" is commonly confused with "estamos", "Estados", "escudos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escasos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escasos" is [esˈkasos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escasos" come from?
"escasos" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.