escaquear
Spanish, verb/eskakeˈaɾ/
escaquear is spelled E-S-C-A-Q-U-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written Spanish, the 252,202nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escaquear is a Spanish verb meaning “to sneak out, slip away, slip out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Trazar escaques (casillas cuadradas) en un tablero de ajedrez o un escudo; dividir algo en escaques”.
What does escaquear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sneak out, slip away, slip out
Nos escaqueamos del grupo y salimos del museo.
- 2
to squirm (to evade a question, an interviewer etc)
- 3
to skive, to shirk
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trazar escaques (casillas cuadradas) en un tablero de ajedrez o un escudo; dividir algo en escaques.
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 escaquear
- escaqueo first-person present singular
- escaqueé first-person preterite singular
- escaqueado participle past
- escaqueando gerund
- escaqueada feminine participle past
- escaqueados masculine participle past
- escaqueadas feminine participle past
- escaqueas indicative informal present
- escaqueás indicative informal present
- escaquea indicative present singular
- escaqueamos first-person indicative plural
- escaqueáis indicative plural present
- escaquean indicative plural present
- escaqueaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escaqueabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escaqueábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escaqueabais imperfect indicative plural
- escaqueaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escaquear?
- /eskakeˈaɾ/
- [es.ka.keˈaɾ]
- [eskakeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escaquear in Spanish?
escaquear appears about once in every 51 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).