cadeado
Portuguese, noun/ka.d͡ʒiˈa.du/
cadeado is spelled C-A-D-E-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,529th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cadeado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “padlock (type of lock)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cadear. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objeto que bloqueia ou impede o acesso a uma determinada área ou coisa”.
What does cadeado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepadlock (type of lock)
adjective
- 1
locked with a padlock
verb
- 1
past participle of cadear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. objeto que bloqueia ou impede o acesso a uma determinada área ou coisa
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 cadeado
- cadeados plural
- cadeada feminine
- cadeadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cadeado?
- Brazil /ka.d͡ʒiˈa.du/
- Brazil /kaˈd͡ʒja.du/
- Brazil /ka.deˈa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cadeado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cadeado in Portuguese?
cadeado appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).