Having forgotten his key, he was able to open the door by inserting a wire in the keyhole.
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Keyhole
//ˈkiˌhoʊl//
Synonyms for "keyhole" (28 found)
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Translations
58 translations across 48 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- բանալու անցք noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ключалка noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 鎖匙窿 /锁匙窿 noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鎖孔 /锁孔 noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- 鑰匙孔 /钥匙孔 noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Czech
1 entries- klíčová dírka noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Danish
1 entries- nøglehul noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Dutch
1 entries- sleutelgat noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝlosiltruo noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Finnish
1 entries- avaimenreikä noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
French
1 entries- trou de la serrure noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Galician
3 entries- fechadura noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- ferrollo noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- pechadura noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Georgian
1 entries- კლიტის ჭუჭრუტანა noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
German
1 entries- Schlüsselloch noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Greek
1 entries- κλειδαρότρυπα noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Greenlandic
1 entries- matuersaaserfik noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Hebrew
1 entries- חור המנעול noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Hungarian
1 entries- kulcslyuk noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Icelandic
1 entries- skráargat noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Indonesian
1 entries- lubang kunci noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Irish
1 entries- poll eochrach noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Italian
2 entries- buco della serratura noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- toppa noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Japanese
1 entries- 鍵穴 noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Korean
1 entries- 열쇠 구멍 noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Latin
1 entries- claustellum noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schlëssellach noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Macedonian
1 entries- клучалка noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Malay
1 entries- lubang kunci noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Mongolian
1 entries- цоожны нүх noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nøkkelhull noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Persian
1 entries- سوراخ کلید noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schlätelloch noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Polish
1 entries- dziurka od klucza noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Portuguese
2 entries- fechadura noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- tranca noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Romanian
1 entries- gaura cheii noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Russian
1 entries- замо́чная сква́жина noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ključaonica noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- ključnica noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- кључаоница noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- кључница noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Slovak
1 entries- kľúčová dierka noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Slovene
1 entries- ključanica noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Spanish
2 entries- bocallave noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- ojo (de la cerradura) noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Swedish
1 entries- nyckelhål noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Tagalog
2 entries- butas-susian noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
- susian noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Tajik
1 entries- сӯрохи калид noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Thai
1 entries- รูกุญแจ noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལྡེ་ཁུང noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Turkish
1 entries- anahtar deliği noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Ukrainian
1 entries- за́мкова щі́ли́на noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lỗ khoá noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Volapük
1 entries- kikahog noun (a hole to lock/unlock with a key)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Tom tried to look through the keyhole, but couldn't see anything.
Source: tatoeba (1092626)
Tom couldn't resist peeking through the keyhole.
Source: tatoeba (1095073)
I can't find the keyhole.
Source: tatoeba (2258730)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.