- Types Of Speech
- You can use scarce as a article, adverb or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Scarce
- A 1 syllables article and 6 letters with the letters a, c, e, r, and s, 4 consonants, 2 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letters ar. Scarce starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters s, sc, sca, scar, scarc, and the ending characters are e, ce, rce, arce, carce, ..
- Definition
- Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
- Origin/Roots
- Old French
- School Grade
- Scarce is set as a grade eight word that starts with s, ends with e, 1 syllables, 2 vowels and 6 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is scarce a scrabble word? A 10 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Scarce in Pig Latin is said as "arcescay or arcescway".
- Unigram
- s | c | a | r | c | e
- Bigram
- sc | ca | ar | rc | ce
- Trigram
- sca | car | arc | rce
- Quadrigram
- scar | carc | arce
- Word Gram
- Article Examples
- deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand;
"fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- not enough;
hard to find;
"meat was scarce during the war"
- Adverb Examples
- by a small margin;
"they could barely hear the speaker";
"we hardly knew them";
"just missed being hit";
"had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open";
"would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Almost Unheard Of | |
| At A Premium | |
| Barely | by a small margin "they could barely hear the speaker" "we hardly knew them" "just missed being hit" "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open" "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats |
| Besprent | sprinkled over "glistening grass besprent with raindrops" |
| Cheap | relatively low in price or charging low prices "it would have been cheap at twice the price" "inexpensive family restaurants" |
| Cheeseparing | giving or spending with reluctance "our cheeseparing administration" "very close (or near) with his money" "a penny-pinching miserly old man" |
| Chinchy | embarrassingly stingy |
| Chintzy | embarrassingly stingy |
| Close | the concluding part of any performance |
| Confused | mentally confused unable to think with clarity or act intelligently "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Scarce
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abundant | present in great quantity "an abundant supply of water" |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" |
View English words with the unique letters used in scarce. Words With The Letters Acers
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rare | not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of gree in the desert" |
| Tight | affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market" |
| See Also | Definition |
|---|---|
| Meager | deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| Meagerly | deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| Meagre | deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caress (6 letters) | 8 | 9 | caress | ||
| Syracuse (8 letters) | 13 +3 | 14 +2 | syracuse | ||
| Cerastes (8 letters) | 10 | 11 | cerastes | ||
| Carcase (7 letters) | 11 +1 | 13 +1 | carcase | ||
| Ceras (5 letters) | 7 | 8 | acres | ||
| Car Seat (8 letters) | |||||
| Caster (6 letters) | 8 | 9 | traces | ||
| Saucer (6 letters) | 8 | 10 | ucares | ||
| Crease (6 letters) | 8 | 9 | crease | ||
| Scarer (6 letters) | 8 | 9 | scarer | ||
| Scarf (5 letters) | 10 | 11 | scarf | ||
| Tear Sac (8 letters) | |||||
| Caesura (7 letters) | 9 | 11 | aacersu | ||
| Surcease (8 letters) | 10 | 12 | surcease | ||
| Scare (5 letters) | 7 | 8 | acres | ||
| Sazerac (7 letters) | 18 +8 | 19 +7 | sazerac | ||
| SACEUR (6 letters) | 8 | 10 | ucares | ||
| Caesarea (8 letters) | 10 | 11 | caesarea | ||
| Crevasse (8 letters) | 13 +3 | 15 +3 | crvesaes | ||
| Accuser (7 letters) | 11 +1 | 14 +2 | accurse | ||
| Actress (7 letters) | 9 | 10 | actress | ||
| Castrate (8 letters) | 10 | 11 | castrate | ||
| Sectary (7 letters) | 12 +2 | 12 | sectary | ||
| Caesar (6 letters) | 8 | 9 | caesar | ||
| Versace (7 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | versace |
Scarce Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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