malfeito
Portuguese, noun/mawˈfej.tu/
malfeito is spelled M-A-L-F-E-I-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malfeito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “wrongdoing (instance of doing something morally or legally wrong)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of malfazer.
What does malfeito mean in English?
adjective
- 1
badly made; of low quality; crude; rough
noun
- 1
masculinewrongdoing (instance of doing something morally or legally wrong)
verb
- 1
past participle of malfazer
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que não é feito com perfeição 2. disforme 3. injusto
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 malfeito
- malfeita feminine
- malfeitos masculine plural
- malfeitas feminine plural
- mal-feito alternative misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malfeito?
- Brazil /mawˈfej.tu/
- Brazil [maʊ̯ˈfeɪ̯.tu]
- Portugal /malˈfɐj.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 malfeito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malfeito in Portuguese?
malfeito appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).