escudo

Other forms of escudo

plural

escudoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about escudo

What does escudo mean?

escudo means "formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in escudo?

escudo has 3 syllables: e-scu-do. The stress falls on "scu". In IPA it is /ɛˈskudoʊ/.

What is another word for escudo?

Close synonyms include Portuguese escudo, Cape Verde escudo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is escudo a common word?

escudo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.