escaldar
Spanish, verb/eskalˈdaɾ/
escaldar is spelled E-S-C-A-L-D-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written Spanish, the 224,790th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escaldar is a Spanish verb meaning “to scald” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sumergir algo en agua hirviendo”.
What does escaldar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scald
- 2
to get sore, to chafe, to excoriate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sumergir algo en agua hirviendo. 2. Abrasar con fuego una cosa, poniéndola muy roja y encendida; como el hierro, etc.
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 escaldar
- escaldo first-person present singular
- escaldé first-person preterite singular
- escaldado participle past
- escaldando gerund
- escaldada feminine participle past
- escaldados masculine participle past
- escaldadas feminine participle past
- escaldas indicative informal present
- escaldás indicative informal present
- escalda indicative present singular
- escaldamos first-person indicative plural
- escaldáis indicative plural present
- escaldan indicative plural present
- escaldaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escaldabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escaldábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escaldabais imperfect indicative plural
- escaldaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escaldar?
- /eskalˈdaɾ/
- [es.kal̪ˈd̪aɾ]
- [eskal̪ˈd̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escaldar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escaldar in Spanish?
escaldar appears about once in every 40 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).