escarrar
Portuguese, verb/is.kaˈʁa(ʁ)/
escarrar is spelled E-S-C-A-R-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escarrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to expectorate, spit, cough up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “expelir o escarro pela boca; expectorar”.
What does escarrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expectorate, spit, cough up
- 2
informalto disburse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. expelir o escarro pela boca; expectorar
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 escarrar
- escarro first-person present singular
- escarrei first-person preterite singular
- escarrado participle past
- escarrares infinitive second-person singular
- escarrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escarrardes infinitive plural second-person
- escarrarem infinitive plural third-person
- escarrando gerund
- escarrados masculine participle past
- escarrada feminine participle past
- escarradas feminine participle past
- escarras indicative present second-person
- escarra indicative present singular
- escarramos first-person indicative plural
- escarrais indicative plural present
- escarram indicative plural present
- escarrava first-person imperfect indicative
- escarravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escarrar?
- Brazil /is.kaˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kaˈha(h)]
- Brazil /es.kaˈʁa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escarrar in Portuguese?
escarrar appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).