Key

"Key" in Portuguese

chave

(indispensable)

chave

(important)

chave

(device designed to open and close a lock)

chave

(crucial step)

chave

(cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode)

chave

(computing: field of a database constrained to be unique)

chave

(computing: field in a record used as a search argument)

chave

(computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array)

clave

(scale of musical notes)

garrafão

(in basketball)

legenda

(small guide explaining symbols or terminology)

tecla

(button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)

tecla

(part of a piano or musical keyboard)

índice

(computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array)

digitar

(computing: enter (information))

riscar

(vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key)

teclar

(computing: enter (information))

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.