escápula
Portuguese, noun
escápula is spelled E-S-C-Á-P-U-L-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 71,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escápula is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “scapula; shoulder blade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, escapula is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “osso plano na região do ombro que se articula com a clavícula e úmero”.
What does escápula mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescapula; shoulder blade
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. osso plano na região do ombro que se articula com a clavícula e úmero 2. prego cuja cabeça se dobra em ângulo para sustentar outro objeto 3. apoio, esteio
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 escápula
- escápulas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is escápula in Portuguese?
escápula 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).