escalpelo
Portuguese, noun/is.kawˈpe.lu/
escalpelo is spelled E-S-C-A-L-P-E-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese, the 264,336th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalpelo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “scalpel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of escalpelar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tipo de bisturi de dois gumes usado para dissecar”.
What does escalpelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescalpel
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of escalpelar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tipo de bisturi de dois gumes usado para dissecar.
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 escalpelo
- escalpelos plural
- es.cal.pe.lo canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escalpelo?
- Brazil /is.kawˈpe.lu/
- Brazil [is.kaʊ̯ˈpe.lu]
- Brazil /es.kawˈpe.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escalpelo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escalpelo in Portuguese?
escalpelo appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).