escoar
Portuguese, verb/is.koˈa(ʁ)/
escoar is spelled E-S-C-O-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,790th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to drain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “coar”.
What does escoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drain
Abriu-se um canal para escoar a lagoa.
- 2
to sell; to liquidate (a product)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. coar 2. fazer fluir, fazer circular
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 escoar
- escoo first-person present singular
- escoei first-person preterite singular
- escoado participle past
- escoares infinitive second-person singular
- escoarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escoardes infinitive plural second-person
- escoarem infinitive plural third-person
- escoando gerund
- escoados masculine participle past
- escoada feminine participle past
- escoadas feminine participle past
- escôo Brazil first-person indicative
- escoas indicative present second-person
- escoa indicative present singular
- escoamos first-person indicative plural
- escoais indicative plural present
- escoam indicative plural present
- escoava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escoar?
- Brazil /is.koˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.koˈa(h)]
- Brazil /es.koˈa(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 escoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escoar in Portuguese?
escoar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).