escalpelar
Portuguese, verb/is.kaw.peˈla(ʁ)/
escalpelar is spelled E-S-C-A-L-P-E-L-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese, the 215,563rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalpelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scalp (to remove the scalp of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar com escalpelo, bisturi”.
What does escalpelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scalp (to remove the scalp of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cortar com escalpelo, bisturi 2. retirar o escalpo
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 escalpelar
- escalpelo first-person present singular
- escalpelei first-person preterite singular
- escalpelado participle past
- escalpelares infinitive second-person singular
- escalpelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escalpelardes infinitive plural second-person
- escalpelarem infinitive plural third-person
- escalpelando gerund
- escalpelados masculine participle past
- escalpelada feminine participle past
- escalpeladas feminine participle past
- escalpelas indicative present second-person
- escalpela indicative present singular
- escalpelamos first-person indicative plural
- escalpelais indicative plural present
- escalpelam indicative plural present
- escalpelava first-person imperfect indicative
- escalpelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escalpelar?
- Brazil /is.kaw.peˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kaʊ̯.peˈla(h)]
- Brazil /es.kaw.peˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escalpelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escalpelar in Portuguese?
escalpelar appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).