desafinado
Portuguese, adjective/de.za.fiˈna.du/
desafinado is spelled D-E-S-A-F-I-N-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,784th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desafinado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “out of tune (not in correct musical pitch)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of desafinar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sem afinação: por falha mecânica (os instrumentos musicais) ou por dissonância (a voz humana)”.
What does desafinado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
out of tune (not in correct musical pitch)
verb
- 1
past participle of desafinar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sem afinação: por falha mecânica (os instrumentos musicais) ou por dissonância (a voz humana) 2. que produz acorde(s) incorreto(s)
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 desafinado
- desafinada feminine
- desafinados masculine plural
- desafinadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desafinado?
- Brazil /de.za.fiˈna.du/
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.za.fiˈna.du/
- Portugal /dɨ.zɐ.fiˈna.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desafinado in Portuguese?
desafinado appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).