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Tuff

German, noun/tʊf/

Tuff is spelled T-U-F-F (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 65,066th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuff is a German masculine noun meaning “tuff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “vulkanisches Gestein, das zu mindestens 75% aus Pyroklasten besteht”.

What does Tuff mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetuff

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetuft

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

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. vulkanisches Gestein, das zu mindestens 75% aus Pyroklasten besteht 2. Sediment, das auf ausgefälltem Kalk aufgebaut ist

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Tuff

  • Tuffs genitive
  • Tuffe plural
  • Tuffen dative definite plural

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

How do you pronounce Tuff?

  • /tʊf/
  • [tʊf]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to Tuff

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

How common is Tuff in German?

Tuff appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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