escalpo
Portuguese, noun
escalpo is spelled E-S-C-A-L-P-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalpo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “scalp (top skin of the head that has been cut off)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of escalpar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pedaço do couro cabeludo arrancado pelos índios norte-americanos do crânio dos inimigos como troféu de guerra”.
What does escalpo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescalp (top skin of the head that has been cut off)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of escalpar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pedaço do couro cabeludo arrancado pelos índios norte-americanos do crânio dos inimigos como troféu de guerra
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 escalpo
- escalpos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to escalpo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escalpo in Portuguese?
escalpo appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).