escrachar
Portuguese, verb/is.kɾaˈʃa(ʁ)/
escrachar is spelled E-S-C-R-A-C-H-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese, the 227,016th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escrachar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to book, to mugshot (to photograph and register someone's details with the police)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “repreender severamente”.
What does escrachar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilcolloquialto book, to mugshot (to photograph and register someone's details with the police)
- 2
Brazilcolloquialto unmask (to reveal the intentions of someone who was trying to hide them)
- 3
Brazilcolloquialto reprimand severely
- 4
Brazilcolloquialto ridicule
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. repreender severamente 2. escarnecer, fazer troça de alguém; ridicularizar
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 escrachar
- escracho first-person present singular
- escrachei first-person preterite singular
- escrachado participle past
- escrachares infinitive second-person singular
- escracharmos first-person infinitive plural
- escrachardes infinitive plural second-person
- escracharem infinitive plural third-person
- escrachando gerund
- escrachados masculine participle past
- escrachada feminine participle past
- escrachadas feminine participle past
- escrachas indicative present second-person
- escracha indicative present singular
- escrachamos first-person indicative plural
- escrachais indicative plural present
- escracham indicative plural present
- escrachava first-person imperfect indicative
- escrachavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escrachar?
- Brazil /is.kɾaˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kɾaˈʃa(h)]
- Brazil /es.kɾaˈʃa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escrachar in Portuguese?
escrachar appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).