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fã

Portuguese, noun

fã is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “fan (admirer or aficionado)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, fá is a different word: “fa (musical note)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “apoiante e/ou admirador de alguém ou de algum objeto”.

What does fã mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinefan (admirer or aficionado)

noun

as fá
  1. 1

    masculinefa (musical note)

verb

as fá
  1. 1

    apocopic form of faz; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. quarta nota musical da escala de dó maior

noun: 1. apoiante e/ou admirador de alguém ou de algum objeto

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 fã

  • fás plural
  • fãs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is fã in Portuguese?

fã appears 30 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).