escaldão
Portuguese, noun/is.kawˈdɐ̃w̃/
escaldão is spelled E-S-C-A-L-D-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 102,716th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escaldão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sunburn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “queimadura na pele produzida por excesso de exposição aos raios solares; queimadura solar”.
What does escaldão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesunburn
Olha, vais apanhar um escaldão!
- 2
masculinescald, burn
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. queimadura na pele produzida por excesso de exposição aos raios solares; queimadura solar
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 escaldão
- escaldões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escaldão?
- Brazil /is.kawˈdɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [is.kaʊ̯ˈdɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /es.kawˈdɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escaldão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escaldão in Portuguese?
escaldão appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).