escuna
Portuguese, noun/isˈkũ.nɐ/
escuna is spelled E-S-C-U-N-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,634th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escuna is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “schooner (type of sailing ship)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “embarcação de dois mastros, com vergas no da proa e sem mastaréu de joanete”.
What does escuna mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineschooner (type of sailing ship)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. embarcação de dois mastros, com vergas no da proa e sem mastaréu de joanete
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 escuna
- escunas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escuna?
- Brazil /isˈkũ.nɐ/
- Brazil /esˈkũ.nɐ/
- /iʃˈkũ.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escuna
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escuna in Portuguese?
escuna appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).