escorrer
Portuguese, verb/is.koˈʁe(ʁ)/
escorrer is spelled E-S-C-O-R-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escorrer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to drain (liquid)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer correr (qualquer líquido)”.
What does escorrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drain (liquid)
Ele escorreu a água quente da panela.
- 2
to drip, to run
Após a corrida, o suor escorria do rosto do atleta.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer correr (qualquer líquido) 2. retirar de (algo) o líquido que continha, fazendo-o correr em fios ou gota a gota 3. deixar sair; brotar, verter 4. brotar em gotas ou correr em fios
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 escorrer
- escorro first-person present singular
- escorri first-person preterite singular
- escorrido participle past
- escorreres infinitive second-person singular
- escorrermos first-person infinitive plural
- escorrerdes infinitive plural second-person
- escorrerem infinitive plural third-person
- escorrendo gerund
- escorridos masculine participle past
- escorrida feminine participle past
- escorridas feminine participle past
- escorres indicative present second-person
- escorre indicative present singular
- escorremos first-person indicative plural
- escorreis indicative plural present
- escorrem indicative plural present
- escorria first-person imperfect indicative
- escorrias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escorrer?
- Brazil /is.koˈʁe(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.koˈhe(h)]
- Brazil /es.koˈʁe(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 escorrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escorrer in Portuguese?
escorrer appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).