escancarar
Portuguese, verb/is.kɐ̃.kaˈɾa(ʁ)/
escancarar is spelled E-S-C-A-N-C-A-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,715th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escancarar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to gape (to open wide)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “abrir completamente”.
What does escancarar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gape (to open wide)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. abrir completamente 2. abrir de par em par
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 escancarar
- escancaro first-person present singular
- escancarei first-person preterite singular
- escancarado participle past
- escancarares infinitive second-person singular
- escancararmos first-person infinitive plural
- escancarardes infinitive plural second-person
- escancararem infinitive plural third-person
- escancarando gerund
- escancarados masculine participle past
- escancarada feminine participle past
- escancaradas feminine participle past
- escancaras indicative present second-person
- escancara indicative present singular
- escancaramos first-person indicative plural
- escancarais indicative plural present
- escancaram indicative plural present
- escancarava first-person imperfect indicative
- escancaravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escancarar?
- Brazil /is.kɐ̃.kaˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kɐ̃.kaˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /es.kɐ̃.kaˈɾa(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 escancarar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escancarar in Portuguese?
escancarar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).