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detonador

Portuguese, noun/de.to.naˈdoʁ/

detonador is spelled D-E-T-O-N-A-D-O-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Detonador is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “detonator (device used to detonate an explosive device)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “equipamento responsável pela detonação de explosivos”.

What does detonador mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    detonating

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedetonator (device used to detonate an explosive device)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. equipamento responsável pela detonação de explosivos

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 detonador

  • detonadora feminine
  • detonadores masculine plural
  • detonadoras feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce detonador?

  • Brazil /de.to.naˈdoʁ/
  • Brazil [de.to.naˈdoh]
  • /de.to.naˈdoɾ/

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

English words that translate to detonador

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is detonador in Portuguese?

detonador appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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