estalinho
Portuguese, noun/is.taˈlĩ.ɲu/
estalinho is spelled E-S-T-A-L-I-N-H-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estalinho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bang snap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of estalo. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “diminuto objeto feito de envólucro de papel enrolado ao redor de material de composição explosiva, e que…”.
What does estalinho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediminutive of estalo
- 2
masculinebang snap
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. diminuto objeto feito de envólucro de papel enrolado ao redor de material de composição explosiva, e que causa um pequeno estouro ao bater com velocidade contra uma superfície
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 estalinho
- estalinhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estalinho?
- Brazil /is.taˈlĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [is.taˈlĩ.j̃u]
- Brazil /es.taˈlĩ.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is estalinho in Portuguese?
estalinho appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).