escarmentar
Spanish, verb/eskaɾmenˈtaɾ/
escarmentar is spelled E-S-C-A-R-M-E-N-T-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 119,889th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escarmentar is a Spanish verb meaning “to punish severely, reprimand, rebuke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Corregir con rigor, de obra o de palabra, al que ha errado, para que se enmiende”.
What does escarmentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to punish severely, reprimand, rebuke
- 2
to learn a lesson
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Corregir con rigor, de obra o de palabra, al que ha errado, para que se enmiende. 2. Avisar de un riesgo.
verb: 1. Aprender de alguna experiencia negativa o desagradable. 2. Tomar enseñanza de lo que uno ha visto y experimentado en sí o en otros, para guardarse y evitar caer en ese tipo de peligros.
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 escarmentar
- escarmiento first-person present singular
- escarmenté first-person preterite singular
- escarmentado participle past
- e-ie alternation
- escarmentando gerund
- escarmentada feminine participle past
- escarmentados masculine participle past
- escarmentadas feminine participle past
- escarmientas indicative informal present
- escarmentás indicative informal present
- escarmienta indicative present singular
- escarmentamos first-person indicative plural
- escarmentáis indicative plural present
- escarmientan indicative plural present
- escarmentaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escarmentabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escarmentábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escarmentabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escarmentar?
- /eskaɾmenˈtaɾ/
- [es.kaɾ.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- [eskaɾmẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escarmentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escarmentar in Spanish?
escarmentar appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).