guiar
Portuguese, verb/ɡiˈa(ʁ)/
guiar is spelled G-U-I-A-R (5 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,457th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lead; to guide; to direct” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conduzir, orientar”.
What does guiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lead; to guide; to direct
- 2
to drive (a vehicle)
- 3
to guide (supervise one's education)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. conduzir, orientar 2. dirigir (veículos)
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 guiar
- guio first-person present singular
- guiei first-person preterite singular
- guiado participle past
- guiares infinitive second-person singular
- guiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- guiardes infinitive plural second-person
- guiarem infinitive plural third-person
- guiando gerund
- guiados masculine participle past
- guiada feminine participle past
- guiadas feminine participle past
- guias indicative present second-person
- guia indicative present singular
- guiamos first-person indicative plural
- guiais indicative plural present
- guiam indicative plural present
- guiava first-person imperfect indicative
- guiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guiar?
- Brazil /ɡiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ˈɡja(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 guiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guiar in Portuguese?
guiar appears 4.4 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).