defraudar
Portuguese, verb/de.fɾawˈda(ʁ)/
defraudar is spelled D-E-F-R-A-U-D-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 102,716th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Defraudar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to defraud (to obtain money or property by fraud)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “privar, espoliar com fraude, fraudulentamente”.
What does defraudar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defraud (to obtain money or property by fraud)
- 2
to dupe (to swindle, deceive, or trick)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. privar, espoliar com fraude, fraudulentamente 2. lesar dolosamente, com dolo 3. depredar, destruir, vandalizar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of defraudar
- defraudo first-person present singular
- defraudei first-person preterite singular
- defraudado participle past
- defraudares infinitive second-person singular
- defraudarmos first-person infinitive plural
- defraudardes infinitive plural second-person
- defraudarem infinitive plural third-person
- defraudando gerund
- defraudados masculine participle past
- defraudada feminine participle past
- defraudadas feminine participle past
- defraudas indicative present second-person
- defrauda indicative present singular
- defraudamos first-person indicative plural
- defraudais indicative plural present
- defraudam indicative plural present
- defraudava first-person imperfect indicative
- defraudavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce defraudar?
- Brazil /de.fɾawˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.fɾaʊ̯ˈda(h)]
- /de.fɾawˈda(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to defraudar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is defraudar in Portuguese?
defraudar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).