tofu
Portuguese, noun/toˈfu/
tofu is spelled T-O-F-U (4 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,465th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tofu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tofu (food made from curdled soybean milk)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alimento semelhante ao queijo que é resultante do coalhamento do sumo extraído da soja”.
What does tofu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetofu (food made from curdled soybean milk)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. alimento semelhante ao queijo que é resultante do coalhamento do sumo extraído da soja
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 tofu
- tofus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tofu?
- Brazil /toˈfu/
- Portugal /tɔˈfu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tofu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tofu in Portuguese?
tofu appears 1.2 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).