contraria
Portuguese, verb
contraria is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-R-I-A (9 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,809th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contraria is a Portuguese verb meaning “third-person singular present indicative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, contrária is a different word: “feminine singular of contrário”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo contrariar”.
What does contraria mean in English?
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of contrário
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo contrariar
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 contraria in Portuguese?
contraria appears 5.2 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).