escalar
Portuguese, verb/is.kaˈlaʁ/
escalar is spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,662nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to climb, mount, scale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “subir, montar”.
What does escalar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
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verb
- 1
to climb, mount, scale
- 2
to scale (to change size of)
- 3
to field, to choose a given player or players for the starting lineup
- 4
to recite a particular team's lineup
- 5
to cast (to assign a role in a play or performance)
verb
- 1
to unscale
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se de grandeza física que não tem dimensão, como por exemplo a temperatura
verb: 1. subir, montar 2. designar uma pessoa para fazer uma determinada tarefa
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escalar
- escalares plural
- escalo first-person present singular
- escalei first-person preterite singular
- escalado participle past
- escalarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escalardes infinitive plural second-person
- escalarem infinitive plural third-person
- escalando gerund
- escalados masculine participle past
- escalada feminine participle past
- escaladas feminine participle past
- escalas indicative present second-person
- escala indicative present singular
- escalamos first-person indicative plural
- escalais indicative plural present
- escalam indicative plural present
- escalava first-person imperfect indicative
- escalavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escalar?
- Brazil /is.kaˈlaʁ/
- Brazil [is.kaˈlah]
- Brazil /es.kaˈlaʁ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escalar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escalar in Portuguese?
escalar appears 6.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).