malfeitor
/maɫ.fɐj.ˈtoɾ/
The verdict
“malfeitor” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,249 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,249
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que comete crimes ou atos condenáveis
Corpus desk
Index PT-malfeitor · malfeitor · Portuguese
malfeitor · rank #59,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,249
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH losango
Nearest frequency peer: losango (-6 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “malfeitor”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- kanji
kanji
40,783 corpus weight
- leiloar
leiloar
40,771 corpus weight
- lesar
lesar
40,766 corpus weight
- losango
losango
40,758 corpus weight
- malfeitor
malfeitor
40,752 corpus weight
- montepio
montepio
40,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “malfeitor” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malfeitor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /maɫ.fɐj.ˈtoɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “malfeitor” em português
Rare enough to double-check
malfeitor is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,249 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /maɫ.fɐj.ˈtoɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que comete crimes ou atos condenáveis".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for malfeitor, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is malfeitor, spelled M-A-L-F-E-I-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1que comete crimes ou atos condenáveis
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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