escalar
Spanish, verb/eskaˈlaɾ/
escalar is spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,540th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalar is a Spanish verb meaning “to scale, to climb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Efectuar la acción de escalada, subir una cuesta o pendiente”.
What does escalar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scale, to climb
adjective
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Efectuar la acción de escalada, subir una cuesta o pendiente. 2. Entrar en alguna parte valiéndose de escalas. 3. Levantar la compuerta de una acequia para dar salida al agua. 4. Tomar como por asalto un empleo elevado, sin pararse en los trámites o dilaciones ordinarias.
adjective: 1. Dicho de una magnitud que puede representarse con un único número (única coordenada) invariable en cualquier sistema de referencia.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escalar
- escalo first-person present singular
- escalé first-person preterite singular
- escalado participle past
- escalando gerund
- escalada feminine participle past
- escalados masculine participle past
- escaladas feminine participle past
- escalas indicative informal present
- escalás indicative informal present
- escala indicative present singular
- escalamos first-person indicative plural
- escaláis indicative plural present
- escalan indicative plural present
- escalaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escalabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escalábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escalabais imperfect indicative plural
- escalaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escalar?
- /eskaˈlaɾ/
- [es.kaˈlaɾ]
- [eskaˈlaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escalar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escalar in Spanish?
escalar appears 4.7 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).