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afiador

Portuguese, noun/a.fi.aˈdoʁ/

afiador is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pencil sharpener” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does afiador mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Portugalfemininepencil sharpener

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of afiador

  • afiadores plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce afiador?

  • Brazil /a.fi.aˈdoʁ/
  • Brazil [a.fi.aˈdoh]
  • Brazil /a.fjaˈdoʁ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is afiador in Portuguese?

afiador 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).