variar
Portuguese, verb/va.ɾiˈa(ʁ)/
variar is spelled V-A-R-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,260th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Variar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to vary (to change with time or a similar parameter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar vário ou diverso”.
What does variar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vary (to change with time or a similar parameter)
- 2
to vary (to institute a change in)
- 3
to inflect (to vary the form of a word)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar vário ou diverso 2. mudar 3. alterar 4. tornar-se diferente
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 variar
- vario first-person present singular
- variei first-person preterite singular
- variado participle past
- variares infinitive second-person singular
- variarmos first-person infinitive plural
- variardes infinitive plural second-person
- variarem infinitive plural third-person
- variando gerund
- variados masculine participle past
- variada feminine participle past
- variadas feminine participle past
- varias indicative present second-person
- varia indicative present singular
- variamos first-person indicative plural
- variais indicative plural present
- variam indicative plural present
- variava first-person imperfect indicative
- variavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce variar?
- Brazil /va.ɾiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [va.ɾiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /vaˈɾja(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 variar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is variar in Portuguese?
variar appears 10 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).