sofá
Portuguese, noun/soˈfa/
sofá is spelled S-O-F-Á (4 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sofá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sofa (upholstered furniture, with back and arms, where people sit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “móvel que pode possuir braços ou encosto, em que podem sentar-se duas pessoas ou mais”.
What does sofá mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesofa (upholstered furniture, with back and arms, where people sit)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. móvel que pode possuir braços ou encosto, em que podem sentar-se duas pessoas ou mais
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sofá
- sofás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sofá?
- Brazil /soˈfa/
- Portugal /suˈfa/
- /(ˌ)sɔˈfa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sofá
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sofá in Portuguese?
sofá appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).