imperfeito
Portuguese, adjective/ĩ.peʁˈfej.tu/
imperfeito is spelled I-M-P-E-R-F-E-I-T-O (10 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 25,237th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imperfeito is a Portuguese adjective meaning “imperfect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não perfeito”.
What does imperfeito mean in English?
adjective
- 1
imperfect
- 2
defective
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. não perfeito 2. incompleto 3. defeituoso
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 imperfeito
- imperfeita feminine
- imperfeitos masculine plural
- imperfeitas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imperfeito?
- Brazil /ĩ.peʁˈfej.tu/
- Brazil [ĩ.pehˈfeɪ̯.tu]
- /ĩ.peɾˈfej.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imperfeito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imperfeito in Portuguese?
imperfeito appears 1.6 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).