luffa
French, noun\lu.fa\
luffa is spelled L-U-F-F-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Luffa is a French masculine noun meaning “loofah” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courge d’Asie et d’Afrique de la famille des Cucurbitaceae”.
What does luffa mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineloofah
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Courge d’Asie et d’Afrique de la famille des Cucurbitaceae.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of luffa
- luffas plural
- loofa
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce luffa?
- \lu.fa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to luffa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is luffa in French?
luffa appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).