metralhadora
Portuguese, noun/me.tɾa.ʎaˈdo.ɾɐ/
metralhadora is spelled M-E-T-R-A-L-H-A-D-O-R-A (12 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metralhadora is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “machine gun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arma de fogo automática que dispara um grande número de projéteis em curto espaço de tempo”.
What does metralhadora mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemachine gun
- 2
femininemachine-gunner
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arma de fogo automática que dispara um grande número de projéteis em curto espaço de tempo 2. rajada de metralhadora
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 metralhadora
- metralhadoras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metralhadora?
- Brazil /me.tɾa.ʎaˈdo.ɾɐ/
- Portugal /mɨ.tɾɐ.ʎɐˈdo.ɾɐ/
- Portugal [mɨ.tɾɐ.ʎɐˈðo.ɾɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is metralhadora in Portuguese?
metralhadora appears 3.8 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).