maldade
Portuguese, noun/mawˈda.d͡ʒi/
maldade is spelled M-A-L-D-A-D-E (7 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maldade is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “malice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade de mau”.
What does maldade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemalice
- 2
femininewickedness
- 3
femininewrongdoing
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade de mau 2. crueldade 3. teimosia 4. malícia
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 maldade
- maldades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maldade?
- Brazil /mawˈda.d͡ʒi/
- Brazil [maʊ̯ˈda.d͡ʒi]
- Portugal /malˈda.dɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to maldade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maldade in Portuguese?
maldade appears 8.1 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).