fiar
Portuguese, verb/fiˈa(ʁ)/
fiar is spelled F-I-A-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 49,864th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to trust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “reduzir a fio”.
What does fiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Portugalto trust
verb
- 1
to spin (thread)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. reduzir a fio 2. urdir 3. abonar(-se) 4. vender a crédito
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 fiar
- fio first-person present singular
- fiei first-person preterite singular
- fiado participle past
- fiares infinitive second-person singular
- fiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fiardes infinitive plural second-person
- fiarem infinitive plural third-person
- fiando gerund
- fiados masculine participle past
- fiada feminine participle past
- fiadas feminine participle past
- fias indicative present second-person
- fia indicative present singular
- fiamos first-person indicative plural
- fiais indicative plural present
- fiam indicative plural present
- fiava first-person imperfect indicative
- fiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fiar?
- Brazil /fiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ˈfja(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 fiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fiar in Portuguese?
fiar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).