escamoso
Portuguese, adjective/is.kaˈmo.zu/
escamoso is spelled E-S-C-A-M-O-S-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,814th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escamoso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “squamous; scaly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que tem ou é coberto de escamas; escamento, escamífero, escamígero”.
What does escamoso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
squamous; scaly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem ou é coberto de escamas; escamento, escamífero, escamígero 2. arrogante, intratável, enjoado
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 escamoso
- escamosa feminine
- escamosos masculine plural
- escamosas feminine plural
- metaphonic feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escamoso?
- Brazil /is.kaˈmo.zu/
- Brazil /es.kaˈmo.zu/
- /iʃ.kaˈmo.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escamoso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escamoso in Portuguese?
escamoso appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).