escapar
Portuguese, verb/is.kaˈpa(ʁ)/
escapar is spelled E-S-C-A-P-A-R (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,671st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escapar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to escape (get free)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fugir de confinamento, ganhar ou reaver a liberdade”.
What does escapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to escape (get free)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fugir de confinamento, ganhar ou reaver a liberdade 2. evitar o perigo, punição, captura 3. sair de um compartimento (diz-se de fluidos, por exemplo) 4. desaparecer, falhar, faltar
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 escapar
- escapo first-person present singular
- escapei first-person preterite singular
- escapado participle past
- escapares infinitive second-person singular
- escaparmos first-person infinitive plural
- escapardes infinitive plural second-person
- escaparem infinitive plural third-person
- escapando gerund
- escapados masculine participle past
- escapada feminine participle past
- escapadas feminine participle past
- escapas indicative present second-person
- escapa indicative present singular
- escapamos first-person indicative plural
- escapais indicative plural present
- escapam indicative plural present
- escapava first-person imperfect indicative
- escapavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escapar?
- Brazil /is.kaˈpa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kaˈpa(h)]
- Brazil /es.kaˈpa(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 escapar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escapar in Portuguese?
escapar appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).