detonador
/dɨ.tu.nɐ.ˈdoɾ/
The verdict
“detonador” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,495 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,495
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - equipamento responsável pela detonação de explosivos
Corpus desk
Index PT-detonador · detonador · Portuguese
detonador · rank #61,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,495
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH destilar
Nearest frequency peer: destilar (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “detonador”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desembaraçar
desembaraçar
38,512 corpus weight
- desjejum
desjejum
38,511 corpus weight
- destilar
destilar
38,507 corpus weight
- detonador
detonador
38,506 corpus weight
- Deutsch
Deutsch
38,505 corpus weight
- dialecto
dialecto
38,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “detonador” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | detonador |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨ.tu.nɐ.ˈdoɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “detonador” em português
Rare enough to double-check
detonador is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,495 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɨ.tu.nɐ.ˈdoɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "equipamento responsável pela detonação de explosivos".
No misspelling variants are generated for detonador in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is detonador, spelled D-E-T-O-N-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1equipamento responsável pela detonação de explosivos
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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