escalo
Spanish, verb
escalo is spelled E-S-C-A-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 40,689th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalo is a Spanish verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of escalar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, escaló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of escalar”.
What does escalo mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of escalar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of escalar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de subir, trepar o entrar en un lugar empleando escalas. 2. Excavación o rotura que se practica para salir o entrar de un lugar cerrado.
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 escalo
- escalos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is escalo in Spanish?
escalo appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).