escassez

noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,333

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

escassez is aPortuguesenoun. It means: suprimento inadequado de algo, especialmente de alimentos It ranks #9,333 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with escasso.

Key facts for escassez
PropertyValue
Headwordescassez
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,333
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of escassez in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for escassez is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,333 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "suprimento inadequado de algo, especialmente de alimentos".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for escassez, with forms such as "ecsassez", "esacssez", and "escasesz". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "escasso", 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 Portuguese form is escassez, spelled E-S-C-A-S-S-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    suprimento inadequado de algo, especialmente de alimentos

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsassez,esacssez,escasesz,escasez,escassezz,escassze,esccassez,escsasez,esscassez,secassez

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escassez

Misspelling Variants of "escassez"

ecsassez8esacssez8escasesz8escasez7escassezz9escassze8esccassez9escsasez8
Misspelling Variants of "escassez"

Frequency rank: #9,333 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escassez"?
"escassez" is spelled E-S-C-A-S-S-E-Z.
What does "escassez" mean?
As a noun, "escassez" means: suprimento inadequado de algo, especialmente de alimentos
What words are commonly confused with "escassez"?
"escassez" is commonly confused with "escasso". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "escassez" come from?
"escassez" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index:

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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.