fallar
Portuguese, verb
fallar is spelled F-A-L-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fallar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of falar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does fallar mean in English?
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of falar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of fallar
- fallo first-person present singular
- fallei first-person preterite singular
- fallado participle past
- fallares infinitive second-person singular
- fallarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fallardes infinitive plural second-person
- fallarem infinitive plural third-person
- fallando gerund
- fallados masculine participle past
- fallada feminine participle past
- falladas feminine participle past
- fallas indicative present second-person
- falla indicative present singular
- fallamos first-person indicative plural
- fallais indicative plural present
- fallam indicative plural present
- fallava first-person imperfect indicative
- fallavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fallar in Portuguese?
fallar appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).