escorar
Portuguese, verb/is.koˈɾa(ʁ)/
escorar is spelled E-S-C-O-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 71,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to prop (support or shore up something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr escoras”.
What does escorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prop (support or shore up something)
- 2
to lean
Ele escorou-se na parede.
- 3
to comfort, to soothe
- 4
Brazilcolloquialto withstand, to endure
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr escoras 2. apoiar de um lado 3. encostar 4. amparar, esperançar
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 escorar
- escoro first-person present singular
- escorei first-person preterite singular
- escorado participle past
- escorares infinitive second-person singular
- escorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escorardes infinitive plural second-person
- escorarem infinitive plural third-person
- escorando gerund
- escorados masculine participle past
- escorada feminine participle past
- escoradas feminine participle past
- escoras indicative present second-person
- escora indicative present singular
- escoramos first-person indicative plural
- escorais indicative plural present
- escoram indicative plural present
- escorava first-person imperfect indicative
- escoravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escorar?
- Brazil /is.koˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.koˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /es.koˈɾa(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 escorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escorar in Portuguese?
escorar 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).