topas
/ˈtəʊpas/noun
topas is a noun meaning “A person of mixed black and Portuguese descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-O-P-A-S, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of topas is topasses.
What does topas mean?
noun
- 1
IndiaA person of mixed black and Portuguese descent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce topas?
- UK /ˈtəʊpas/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of topas
- topasses plural
- topass
- topaz
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is topas?
Topas appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 topas come from?
From Portuguese topaz, of uncertain origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).