escaldar
/iʃ.kaɫ.ˈdaɾ/
The verdict
“escaldar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,184 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,184
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - queimar com líquido ou vapor quente
Corpus desk
Index PT-escaldar · escaldar · Portuguese
escaldar · rank #88,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,184
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH enviesado
Nearest frequency peer: enviesado (-6 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “escaldar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- entusiástico
entusiástico
11,826 corpus weight
- envergar
envergar
11,824 corpus weight
- enviesado
enviesado
11,823 corpus weight
- escaldar
escaldar
11,817 corpus weight
- estalajadei…
estalajadeiro
11,811 corpus weight
- etário
etário
11,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “escaldar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escaldar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /iʃ.kaɫ.ˈdaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “escaldar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
escaldar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,184 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /iʃ.kaɫ.ˈdaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 15 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for escaldar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is escaldar, spelled E-S-C-A-L-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1queimar com líquido ou vapor quente
- 2queimar por contato com metal ou superfície quente
- 3submergir um instante em água fervendo ou muito quente; deitar água a ferver ou muito quente em
- 4ressecar
- 5queimar-se, sofrer queimadura
- 6esterilizar
- 7refogar, guisar
- 8causar febre ou produzir calor
- 9estar muito quente, queimar
- 10cobrar um preço abusivo, estar muito caro
- 11perturbar, inquietar
- 12exaltar
- 13castigar, servir de castigo
- 14escarmentar, apreender a lição da vida
- 15dar lição de vida a
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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