confiar
Portuguese, verb/kõ.fiˈa(ʁ)/
confiar is spelled C-O-N-F-I-A-R (7 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to confide, entrust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “acreditar”.
What does confiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confide, entrust
- 2
to rely on, trust
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. acreditar 2. ter confiança 3. deixar sob responsabilidade
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 confiar
- confio first-person present singular
- confiei first-person preterite singular
- confiado participle past
- confiares infinitive second-person singular
- confiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- confiardes infinitive plural second-person
- confiarem infinitive plural third-person
- confiando gerund
- confiados masculine participle past
- confiada feminine participle past
- confiadas feminine participle past
- confias indicative present second-person
- confia indicative present singular
- confiamos first-person indicative plural
- confiais indicative plural present
- confiam indicative plural present
- confiava first-person imperfect indicative
- confiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confiar?
- Brazil /kõ.fiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.fiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /kõˈfja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confiar in Portuguese?
confiar appears 29 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).