farofa
/fəˈroʊfə/noun
farofa is a noun meaning “A toasted manioc flour used in Brazilian cookery, typically as an accompaniment to a main meal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-O-F-A, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does farofa mean?
noun
- 1
A toasted manioc flour used in Brazilian cookery, typically as an accompaniment to a main meal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farofa?
- US /fəˈroʊfə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farofa?
Farofa appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does farofa come from?
From Portuguese farofa, perhaps from Kimbundu falofa or from Latin far (“a type of hulled wheat”) + offa (“chunk; dumpling”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).