escapar
Spanish, verb/eskaˈpaɾ/
escapar is spelled E-S-C-A-P-A-R (7 letters) and appears 24 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,394th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escapar is a Spanish verb meaning “to escape, get out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Salir de un encierro o peligro”.
What does escapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to escape, get out
- 2
to run away, get away, slip away, flee
- 3
to sneak out, run off
- 4
to manage; to get by
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Salir de un encierro o peligro. 2. Salir con prisa. 3. Escribir una secuencia de caracteres que permitan codificar un caracter reservado para la sintaxis del lenguaje y que por lo tanto no podría escribirse directamente.
verb: 1. Tratándose del caballo, hacerlo correr con extraordinaria violencia. 2. Librar₂.
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 escapar
- escapo first-person present singular
- escapé first-person preterite singular
- escapado participle past
- escapando gerund
- escapada feminine participle past
- escapados masculine participle past
- escapadas feminine participle past
- escapas indicative informal present
- escapás indicative informal present
- escapa indicative present singular
- escapamos first-person indicative plural
- escapáis indicative plural present
- escapan indicative plural present
- escapaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escapabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escapábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escapabais imperfect indicative plural
- escapaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escapar?
- /eskaˈpaɾ/
- [es.kaˈpaɾ]
- [eskaˈpaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escapar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escapar in Spanish?
escapar appears 24 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).