Skip to main content
PlainSpell

ia

Portuguese, verb

ia is spelled I-A (2 letters) and appears 162 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 597th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ia is a Portuguese verb meaning “alternative form of iria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ir. With a capital, IA is a different word: “AI (artificial intelligence)”. With an accent, iá is a different word: “yes”.

What does ia mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ir

  2. 2

    informalalternative form of iria

noun

as IA
  1. 1

    feminineAI (artificial intelligence)

suffix

as -ia
  1. 1

    feminineforms nouns, from adjectives, denoting states, conditions and qualities; -ness; -ity; -y; -hood

  2. 2

    feminineforms the names of medical conditions; -y; -ia

  3. 3

    feminineforms the names of offices or jobs; -ship

  4. 4

    feminineforms placenames; -y; -ia

suffix

as -ia
  1. 1

    a suffix indicating the first-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -er and -ir

  2. 2

    a suffix indicating the third-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -er and -ir

suffix

as -ia
  1. 1

    appended to the infinitive, forms the first-person singular and third-person singular conditional of verbs

adverb

as iá
  1. 1

    Portugalcolloquialyes

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

suffix: 1. formador de substantivos femininos 2. formador de substantivos femininos 3. formador de substantivos femininos 4. sufixo formador de palavras relativas a assuntos como ciência, conjunto, doutrina, profissão, qualidade

abbreviation: 1. sigla de inteligência artificial

adverb: 1. sim

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 ia

  • IAs plural
  • yá alternative
  • ya alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to ia

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ia in Portuguese?

ia appears 162 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).

What to look up after ia