tábua
Portuguese, noun
tábua is spelled T-Á-B-U-A (5 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tábua is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “board; plank (long, flat piece of wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tabua is a different word: “alternative form of taboa”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peça de madeira, plana, lisa”.
What does tábua mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineboard; plank (long, flat piece of wood)
Usei tábuas de carvalho para fazer o assoalho.
- 2
femininechopping board (small board on which food is chopped)
Piquei uns pepinos na tábua.
- 3
femininea small table for serving food or playing games
Tábua de queijos.
- 4
femininetable (grid of data in rows and columns)
Procure o seu nome na tábua.
- 5
colloquialderogatoryfemininea woman who is very thin and has small breasts
Tua mãe é uma tábua.
- 6
Brazilfeminineslanga refusal or rejection, especially of a marriage proposal
Todo mundo viu a tábua que levei da minha ex-namorada.
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of taboa
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peça de madeira, plana, lisa 2. quadro, tela 3. tabela, relação, rol, lista, catálogo 4. mesa para jogos ou refeições
noun: 1. cidade portuguesa
noun: 1. planta de águas doces estancadas de inflorescência cilíndrica em penugem do género Typha
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 tábua
- tábuas plural
- táboa alternative obsolete
- tabuas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tábua
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tábua in Portuguese?
tábua appears 3.8 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).