escroque
Portuguese, noun/isˈkɾɔ.ki/
escroque is spelled E-S-C-R-O-Q-U-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 94,578th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escroque is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “crook, swindler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que se apropria dos bens de outrem por manobras fraudulentas; vigarista”.
What does escroque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrook, swindler
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa que se apropria dos bens de outrem por manobras fraudulentas; vigarista
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 escroque
- escroques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escroque?
- Brazil /isˈkɾɔ.ki/
- Brazil /esˈkɾɔ.ki/
- /iʃˈkɾɔ.ki/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escroque in Portuguese?
escroque appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).