tona
Portuguese, noun/ˈtõ.nɐ/
tona is spelled T-O-N-A (4 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,870th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tona is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “skin, thin peel, outer part of something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “casca, cortiça”.
What does tona mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineskin, thin peel, outer part of something
- 2
femininesapwood
- 3
femininefilm (thin layer of something)
- 4
femininea large stopper, similar to a bung
- 5
femininesurface of the water
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. casca, cortiça 2. pele fina superficial 3. no leite, a sua nata 4. a primeira camada da terra agrícola
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo tonar
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 tona
- tonas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tona?
- Brazil /ˈtõ.nɐ/
- Portugal /ˈto.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tona in Portuguese?
tona appears 7.8 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).