infausto
Portuguese, adjective/ĩˈfaws.tu/
infausto is spelled I-N-F-A-U-S-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese, the 207,250th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infausto is a Portuguese adjective meaning “doomed, ill-fated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que traz mau agouro; marcado pela desgraça ou pelo infortúnio”.
What does infausto mean in English?
adjective
- 1
doomed, ill-fated
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que traz mau agouro; marcado pela desgraça ou pelo infortúnio
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 infausto
- infausta feminine
- infaustos masculine plural
- infaustas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce infausto?
- Brazil /ĩˈfaws.tu/
- Brazil [ĩˈfaʊ̯s.tu]
- /ĩˈfawʃ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is infausto in Portuguese?
infausto appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).