cf.
Portuguese, verb
cf. is spelled C-F (2 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,018th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cf. is a Portuguese verb meaning “cf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cf. mean in English?
verb
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cf
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Constituição Federal 2. comunicação facilitada
abbreviation: 1. abreviatura de "confira" ou "confronte"
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.
English words that translate to cf.
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cf. in Portuguese?
cf. appears 5.8 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).