escatimar
[eskat̪iˈmaɾ]
The verdict
“escatimar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,712 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,712
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dar o usar lo menos posible, o solo lo imprescindible, algún recurso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escatimar · escatimar · Spanish
escatimar · rank #67,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,712
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escapulario
Nearest frequency peer: escapulario (-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 “escatimar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- epidemiológ…
epidemiológicos
32,293 corpus weight
- escapará
escapará
32,291 corpus weight
- escapulario
escapulario
32,290 corpus weight
- escatimar
escatimar
32,289 corpus weight
- esclavizada
esclavizada
32,288 corpus weight
- escribiremos
escribiremos
32,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “escatimar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escatimar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eskat̪iˈmaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “escatimar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
escatimar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,712 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [eskat̪iˈmaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for escatimar, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is escatimar, spelled E-S-C-A-T-I-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Dar o usar lo menos posible, o solo lo imprescindible, algún recurso.
- 2Adulterar y depravar el sentido de las palabras y de los escritos, torciéndolos e interpretándolos maliciosamente.
- 3Observar o rastrear cuidadosamente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escatimar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No escatimé esfuerzos en este trabajo, al que dediqué casi tres semanas.
Synonyms
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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