tufa
/ˈt(j)uːfə/noun
tufa is spelled T-U-F-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tufa means “Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tufa is tufas.
How many letters and syllables are in tufa?
| Letters | 4: T-U-F-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tufa?
Tufa appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th 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).
How do you pronounce tufa?
- /ˈt(j)uːfə/
Tufa has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with tufa?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tufa.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: futa.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tufa
- tufas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tufa mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
B.J. Szabo presented the results of a survey of the tufa mounds that border Pyramid Lake indicating that uranium-series methods can be used to approximate the ages of such tufa deposits. In the Pyramid Lake Basin, tufas less than 50,000 yea
- 2
A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tufa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense calcareous deposit of lime found near hot springs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tuffeau |
| German | Kalktuff |
| Spanish | toba (calcárea) |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tufa come from?
From Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus or tōphus. Doublet of tuff.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).