caíra
Portuguese, verb
caíra is spelled C-A-Í-R-A (5 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,255th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caíra is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of cair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cairá is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of cair”.
What does caíra mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of cair
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of cair
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupo de cães
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.
How common is caíra in Portuguese?
caíra appears 1.7 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).