esquadrinhar
Portuguese, verb/is.kwa.dɾĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
esquadrinhar is spelled E-S-Q-U-A-D-R-I-N-H-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esquadrinhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to investigate in detail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “analisar”.
What does esquadrinhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to investigate in detail
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. analisar 2. percorrer 3. perquirir 4. perscrutar
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 esquadrinhar
- esquadrinho first-person present singular
- esquadrinhei first-person preterite singular
- esquadrinhado participle past
- esquadrinhares infinitive second-person singular
- esquadrinharmos first-person infinitive plural
- esquadrinhardes infinitive plural second-person
- esquadrinharem infinitive plural third-person
- esquadrinhando gerund
- esquadrinhados masculine participle past
- esquadrinhada feminine participle past
- esquadrinhadas feminine participle past
- esquadrinhas indicative present second-person
- esquadrinha indicative present singular
- esquadrinhamos first-person indicative plural
- esquadrinhais indicative plural present
- esquadrinham indicative plural present
- esquadrinhava first-person imperfect indicative
- esquadrinhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquadrinhar?
- Brazil /is.kwa.dɾĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kwa.dɾĩˈj̃a(h)]
- Brazil /es.kwa.dɾĩˈɲa(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 esquadrinhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esquadrinhar in Portuguese?
esquadrinhar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).