feio
Portuguese, noun/ˈfej.u/
feio is spelled F-E-I-O (4 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,707th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “an ugly person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “diz-se do sujeito de má aparência”.
What does feio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean ugly person
adjective
- 1
ugly (visually unpleasant)
prédio feio
- 2
wrong, immoral
Você roubou comida? Que feio!
- 3
disrespectful, impolite, rude
É feio arrotar enquanto se come.
adverb
- 1
in an ugly manner
- 2
severely, critically, very much (used when the result is negative)
Errou feio!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. não estético, horrendo 2. grave, sério 3. ação ou ato desonesto, vergonhoso, indecoroso, indecente
adverb: 1. de modo feio
noun: 1. diz-se do sujeito de má aparência
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 feio
- feios plural
- feia feminine
- feias feminine plural
- mais feio comparative
- o mais feio superlative
- feiíssimo superlative
- feiinho diminutive
- feião augmentative
- mais feia comparative feminine singular
- mais feios comparative masculine plural
- mais feias comparative feminine plural
- feiíssima feminine singular superlative
- feiíssimos masculine plural superlative
- feiíssimas feminine plural superlative
- feiona augmentative feminine singular
- feiões augmentative masculine plural
- feionas augmentative feminine plural
- feiinha diminutive feminine singular
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce feio?
- Brazil /ˈfej.u/
- Brazil [ˈfeɪ̯.u]
- Portugal /ˈfɐj.u/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to feio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is feio in Portuguese?
feio appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).