frigir
Portuguese, verb/fɾiˈʒi(ʁ)/
frigir is spelled F-R-I-G-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese, the 180,215th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frigir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cozer ou assar em manteiga ou azeite na frigideira”.
What does frigir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fry
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cozer ou assar em manteiga ou azeite na frigideira
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 frigir
- frijo first-person present singular
- frege present singular third-person
- frigi first-person preterite singular
- frigido participle past
- frito participle past short-form
- i-e alternation
- g-j alternation
- frigires infinitive second-person singular
- frigirmos first-person infinitive plural
- frigirdes infinitive plural second-person
- frigirem infinitive plural third-person
- frigindo gerund
- fritos masculine participle past
- frita feminine participle past
- fritas feminine participle past
- frigidos long-form masculine participle
- frigida feminine long-form participle
- frigidas feminine long-form participle
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frigir?
- Brazil /fɾiˈʒi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fɾiˈʒi(h)]
- Portugal /fɾi.ˈʒiɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frigir in Portuguese?
frigir appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).