penuria
[peˈnuɾja]
The verdict
“penuria” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,997 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,997
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escasez, falta de las cosas esenciales o de una de ellas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-penuria · penuria · Spanish
penuria · rank #57,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,997
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH penitentes
Nearest frequency peer: penitentes (-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 “penuria”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pedra
pedra
42,008 corpus weight
- peleadores
peleadores
42,007 corpus weight
- peloteros
peloteros
42,006 corpus weight
- penitentes
penitentes
42,005 corpus weight
- penuria
penuria
42,004 corpus weight
- percances
percances
42,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “penuria” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penuria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈnuɾja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “penuria” en español
Rare enough to double-check
penuria is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,997 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [peˈnuɾja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Escasez, falta de las cosas esenciales o de una de ellas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for penuria, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is penuria, spelled P-E-N-U-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Escasez, falta de las cosas esenciales o de una de ellas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how penuria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Algunas noches se entretenían en poner en solfa a D. Lope, el cual, al verse en tan gran decadencia, desmintió los hábitos espléndidos de toda su vida, volviéndose algo roñoso. Apremiado por la creciente penuria, regateaba los míseros gastos de la casa, educándose, ¡a buenas horas!, en la administración doméstica, tan disconforme con su caballería
Antonyms
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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