cofiar
Portuguese, verb/ko.fiˈa(ʁ)/
cofiar is spelled C-O-F-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese, the 266,412th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cofiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stroke, smooth (hair, beard etc)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “passar a mão para alisar um tecido, a barba, o cabelo, o pelo de um animal”.
What does cofiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stroke, smooth (hair, beard etc)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. passar a mão para alisar um tecido, a barba, o cabelo, o pelo de um animal 2. acarinhar
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 cofiar
- cofio first-person present singular
- cofiei first-person preterite singular
- cofiado participle past
- cofiares infinitive second-person singular
- cofiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cofiardes infinitive plural second-person
- cofiarem infinitive plural third-person
- cofiando gerund
- cofiados masculine participle past
- cofiada feminine participle past
- cofiadas feminine participle past
- cofias indicative present second-person
- cofia indicative present singular
- cofiamos first-person indicative plural
- cofiais indicative plural present
- cofiam indicative plural present
- cofiava first-person imperfect indicative
- cofiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cofiar?
- Brazil /ko.fiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ko.fiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /koˈfja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cofiar in Portuguese?
cofiar appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).