faiar
Portuguese, verb/fajˈa(ʁ)/
faiar is spelled F-A-I-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese, the 258,761st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lead (to place leads between lines of print to increase their spacing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “intercalar, escrever entre linhas”.
What does faiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
rareto lead (to place leads between lines of print to increase their spacing)
verb
- 1
slangto steal, to rob
- 2
to live the life of a fadista
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. intercalar, escrever entre linhas 2. fazer o telhado com faias, fazer o teito com tábuas de madeira, construir o faiado
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 faiar
- faio first-person present singular
- faiei first-person preterite singular
- faiado participle past
- faiares infinitive second-person singular
- faiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- faiardes infinitive plural second-person
- faiarem infinitive plural third-person
- faiando gerund
- faiados masculine participle past
- faiada feminine participle past
- faiadas feminine participle past
- faias indicative present second-person
- faia indicative present singular
- faiamos first-person indicative plural
- faiais indicative plural present
- faiam indicative plural present
- faiava first-person imperfect indicative
- faiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faiar?
- Brazil /fajˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [faɪ̯ˈa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is faiar in Portuguese?
faiar appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).