petardo
/pɨ.ˈtaɾ.du/
The verdict
“petardo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #92,210 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #92,210
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - peça carregada de material explosivo, portátil, usada para destruir obstáculos
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petardo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈtaɾ.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “petardo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for petardo is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨ.ˈtaɾ.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #92,210 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for petardo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is petardo, spelled P-E-T-A-R-D-O.
Definition
- 1peça carregada de material explosivo, portátil, usada para destruir obstáculos
- 2peça de fogo de artifício que produz um estampido ao arrebentar
- 3chute violento, especialmente contra o gol
This word in other languages
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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Using “petardo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-T-A-R-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɨ.ˈtaɾ.du/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.