carestia
/kɐ.ɾɨʃ.ˈti.ɐ/
The verdict
“carestia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,499 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,499
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - escassez de víveres ou de determinado produto
Corpus desk
Index PT-carestia · carestia · Portuguese
carestia · rank #97,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,499
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH brasis
Nearest frequency peer: brasis (-21 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “carestia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- boco
boco
2,534 corpus weight
- brasis
brasis
2,523 corpus weight
- carestia
carestia
2,502 corpus weight
- chucha
chucha
2,480 corpus weight
- coalhado
coalhado
2,470 corpus weight
- coerentemen…
coerentemente
2,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carestia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carestia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ɾɨʃ.ˈti.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carestia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carestia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,499 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ɾɨʃ.ˈti.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
carestia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is carestia, spelled C-A-R-E-S-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1escassez de víveres ou de determinado produto
- 2(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) encarecimento do custo de vida
- 3(Derivação: por metonímia) preço elevado, acima do valor real
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).