enfado
Portuguese, noun/ẽˈfa.du/
enfado is spelled E-N-F-A-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 118,367th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tedium; boredom; tediousness; ennui” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of enfadar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “impressão desagradável, agastamento, mal-estar”.
What does enfado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetedium; boredom; tediousness; ennui
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of enfadar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. impressão desagradável, agastamento, mal-estar 2. aborrecimento, tédio
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 enfado
- enfados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfado?
- Brazil /ẽˈfa.du/
- Brazil /ĩˈfa.du/
- Portugal /ẽˈfa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enfado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfado in Portuguese?
enfado appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).