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escara

Spanish, noun/esˈkaɾa/

escara is spelled E-S-C-A-R-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 160,355th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escara is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “scab, eschar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cicatriz que se forma en la piel por la muerte del tejido, bien a causa de incisiones o de quemaduras por…”.

What does escara mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininescab, eschar

  2. 2

    femininebedsore

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Cicatriz que se forma en la piel por la muerte del tejido, bien a causa de incisiones o de quemaduras por fuego o sustancia química.

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 escara

  • escaras plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce escara?

  • /esˈkaɾa/
  • [esˈka.ɾa]
  • [esˈkaɾa]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to escara

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is escara in Spanish?

escara appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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