esculachar
Portuguese, verb/is.ku.laˈʃa(ʁ)/
esculachar is spelled E-S-C-U-L-A-C-H-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 119,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esculachar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to own; to defeat; to overwhelm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “avacalhar, humilhar”.
What does esculachar mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto own; to defeat; to overwhelm
- 2
informalto humiliate
- 3
to hit or physically beat someone.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. avacalhar, humilhar 2. repreender com rigor
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 esculachar
- esculacho first-person present singular
- esculachei first-person preterite singular
- esculachado participle past
- esculachares infinitive second-person singular
- esculacharmos first-person infinitive plural
- esculachardes infinitive plural second-person
- esculacharem infinitive plural third-person
- esculachando gerund
- esculachados masculine participle past
- esculachada feminine participle past
- esculachadas feminine participle past
- esculachas indicative present second-person
- esculacha indicative present singular
- esculachamos first-person indicative plural
- esculachais indicative plural present
- esculacham indicative plural present
- esculachava first-person imperfect indicative
- esculachavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esculachar?
- Brazil /is.ku.laˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.ku.laˈʃa(h)]
- Brazil /es.ku.laˈʃa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esculachar in Portuguese?
esculachar appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).