aferir
Portuguese, verb/a.feˈɾi(ʁ)/
aferir is spelled A-F-E-R-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aferir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to calibrate, to benchmark, to check the accuracy of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr a marca de aferição em”.
What does aferir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to calibrate, to benchmark, to check the accuracy of
- 2
to verify (weights, measurements)
- 3
to mark, to indicate (the weight of something)
- 4
to evaluate, to estimate
- 5
to standardize (a test)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr a marca de aferição em 2. avaliar, comparar, cotejar 3. medir, avaliar 4. conferir cada aspecto com seu respectivo padrão; afilar
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 aferir
- afiro first-person present singular
- afere present singular third-person
- aferi first-person preterite singular
- aferido participle past
- i-e alternation
- aferires infinitive second-person singular
- aferirmos first-person infinitive plural
- aferirdes infinitive plural second-person
- aferirem infinitive plural third-person
- aferindo gerund
- aferidos masculine participle past
- aferida feminine participle past
- aferidas feminine participle past
- aferes indicative present second-person
- aferimos first-person indicative plural
- aferis indicative plural present
- aferem indicative plural present
- aferia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aferir?
- Brazil /a.feˈɾi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.feˈɾi(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aferir in Portuguese?
aferir appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).