porfía
Spanish, noun
porfía is spelled P-O-R-F-Í-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 117,287th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Porfía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “obstinacy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of porfiar. With an accent, porfiá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of porfiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de porfiar; insistencia, perseverancia, persistencia, terquedad u obstinación”.
What does porfía mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineobstinacy
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of porfiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de porfiar; insistencia, perseverancia, persistencia, terquedad u obstinación. 2. Disputa, altercado o discusión.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of porfía
- porfías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to porfía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is porfía in Spanish?
porfía appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).