surfe
Portuguese, noun/ˈsuʁ.fi/
surfe is spelled S-U-R-F-E (5 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,255th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surfe is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of surf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of surfar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esporte em que, em posição vertical sobre uma prancha, desliza-se por sobre ondas marinhas”.
What does surfe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of surf
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. esporte em que, em posição vertical sobre uma prancha, desliza-se por sobre ondas marinhas
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.
How do you pronounce surfe?
- Brazil /ˈsuʁ.fi/
- Brazil [ˈsuh.fi]
- /ˈsuɾ.fi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to surfe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surfe in Portuguese?
surfe appears 1.7 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).