escocer
Spanish, verb/eskoˈθeɾ/
escocer is spelled E-S-C-O-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish, the 182,048th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escocer is a Spanish verb meaning “to sting, to smart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de una parte del cuerpo: producir una sensación molesta similar a una quemadura”.
What does escocer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sting, to smart
- 2
to irritate; get up someone's nose
- 3
to chafe (get sore)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dicho de una parte del cuerpo: producir una sensación molesta similar a una quemadura. 2. Causar una sensación molesta, similar a una quemadura. 3. Producir una sensación de disgusto o aflicción.
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 escocer
- escuezo first-person present singular
- escocí first-person preterite singular
- escocido participle past
- o-ue alternation
- c-z alternation
- escociendo gerund
- escocida feminine participle past
- escocidos masculine participle past
- escocidas feminine participle past
- escueces indicative informal present
- escocés indicative informal present
- escuece indicative present singular
- escocemos first-person indicative plural
- escocéis indicative plural present
- escuecen indicative plural present
- escocía first-person imperfect indicative
- escocías imperfect indicative second-person
- escocíamos first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escocer?
- /eskoˈθeɾ/
- [es.koˈθeɾ]
- /eskoˈseɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escocer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escocer in Spanish?
escocer appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).