petardo
/pɨ.ˈtaɾ.du/
The verdict
“petardo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,210 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,210
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça carregada de material explosivo, portátil, usada para destruir obstáculos
Corpus desk
Index PT-petardo · petardo · Portuguese
petardo · rank #92,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,210
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pitangas
Nearest frequency peer: pitangas (+8 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 “petardo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ossário
ossário
7,819 corpus weight
- pancadão
pancadão
7,807 corpus weight
- parafrasear
parafrasear
7,805 corpus weight
- petardo
petardo
7,791 corpus weight
- pitangas
pitangas
7,783 corpus weight
- plugar
plugar
7,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “petardo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “petardo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
petardo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,210 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɨ.ˈtaɾ.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petardo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Foi uma explosão muito forte, de um petardo que ainda não sabemos de que tipo era", disse por telefone um sargento das Relações Pública do Corpo de Bombeiros.
Na metade do primeiro tempo, com seu característico corte para dentro pela direita, o pequeno craque disparou um petardo rasteiro no canto, forçando Enyeama a se jogar no chão para desviar a bola.
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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