escarnecer
Portuguese, verb/is.kaʁ.neˈse(ʁ)/
escarnecer is spelled E-S-C-A-R-N-E-C-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escarnecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mock; to deride; to laugh at” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer escárnio de; troçar, zombar”.
What does escarnecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mock; to deride; to laugh at
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer escárnio de; troçar, zombar 2. ludibriar
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 escarnecer
- escarneço first-person present singular
- escarneci first-person preterite singular
- escarnecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- escarneceres infinitive second-person singular
- escarnecermos first-person infinitive plural
- escarnecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- escarnecerem infinitive plural third-person
- escarnecendo gerund
- escarnecidos masculine participle past
- escarnecida feminine participle past
- escarnecidas feminine participle past
- escarneces indicative present second-person
- escarnece indicative present singular
- escarnecemos first-person indicative plural
- escarneceis indicative plural present
- escarnecem indicative plural present
- escarnecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escarnecer?
- Brazil /is.kaʁ.neˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kaɦ.neˈse(h)]
- Brazil /es.kaʁ.neˈse(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 escarnecer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escarnecer in Portuguese?
escarnecer appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).