pecado
Portuguese, noun/peˈka.du/
pecado is spelled P-E-C-A-D-O (6 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,888th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pecado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of pecar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transgressão de um preceito religioso”.
What does pecado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesin
verb
- 1
past participle of pecar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. transgressão de um preceito religioso 2. transgressão de qualquer preceito ou regra; culpa 3. maldade; vício
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 pecado
- pecados plural
- peccado alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pecado?
- Brazil /peˈka.du/
- Portugal /pɨˈka.du/
- Portugal [pɨˈka.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pecado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pecado in Portuguese?
pecado appears 22 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).