maleficio
Spanish, noun
maleficio is spelled M-A-L-E-F-I-C-I-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 52,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maleficio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hex (evil spell)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of maleficiar. With an accent, malefició is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of maleficiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Palabras o acciones de brujería o magia para causar daño”.
What does maleficio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehex (evil spell)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of maleficiar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of maleficiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Palabras o acciones de brujería o magia para causar daño
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of maleficio
- maleficios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to maleficio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maleficio in Spanish?
maleficio appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).