perfídia
Portuguese, noun/peʁˈfi.d͡ʒjɐ/
perfídia is spelled P-E-R-F-Í-D-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 89,875th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perfídia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “perfidy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “traição”.
What does perfídia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineperfidy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. traição 2. deslealdade 3. qualidade de pérfido
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 perfídia
- perfídias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perfídia?
- Brazil /peʁˈfi.d͡ʒjɐ/
- Brazil [pehˈfi.d͡ʒjɐ]
- /peɾˈfi.d͡ʒjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to perfídia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perfídia in Portuguese?
perfídia appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).