escassear
Portuguese, verb/is.ka.seˈa(ʁ)/
escassear is spelled E-S-C-A-S-S-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 94,578th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escassear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to become scarce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar-se escasso”.
What does escassear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to become scarce
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar-se escasso 2. faltar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escassear
- escasseio first-person present singular
- escasseei first-person preterite singular
- escasseado participle past
- escasseares infinitive second-person singular
- escassearmos first-person infinitive plural
- escasseardes infinitive plural second-person
- escassearem infinitive plural third-person
- escasseando gerund
- escasseados masculine participle past
- escasseada feminine participle past
- escasseadas feminine participle past
- escasseias indicative present second-person
- escasseia indicative present singular
- escasseamos first-person indicative plural
- escasseais indicative plural present
- escasseiam indicative plural present
- escasseava first-person imperfect indicative
- escasseavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escassear?
- Brazil /is.ka.seˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.ka.seˈa(h)]
- Brazil /es.ka.seˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escassear in Portuguese?
escassear appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).