tupi
Portuguese, noun
tupi is spelled T-U-P-I (4 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tupi is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Tupi (a member of the Tupi tribes of Brazil)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tupí is a different word: “prescribed spelling of tupi under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indivíduo dos tupis”.
What does tupi mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineTupi (a member of the Tupi tribes of Brazil)
noun
- 1
masculineOld Tupi (an extinct language of Brazil)
- 2
masculineproscribedNheengatu (a modern language of Brazil)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineof the Tupi tribe or people
- 2
femininemasculineof the Old Tupi language
- 3
femininemasculineproscribedof the Nheengatu language
noun
- 1
femininemasculineprescribed spelling of tupi under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
noun
- 1
masculineprescribed spelling of tupi under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineprescribed spelling of tupi under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se refere ao macropovo tupi 2. que se refere a macrolíngua tupi
noun: 1. indivíduo dos tupis 2. macrolíngua da família tupi-guarani falada a época do descobrimento ao longo de quase toda a costa brasileira e que se tornou a mais importante língua indígena do Brasil 3. tronco linguístico que agrupa mais de uma centena de línguas, aglutinantes e sintéticas, e que se estende por um vasto território da América do Sul, possuindo em território brasileiro dez famílias vivas (ariquém, auetí, juruna, maué, mondé, mundurucu, puroborá, ramarama, tuparí, tupi-guarani) 4. referido erroneamente como o nheengatu (o "tupi moderno")
noun: 1. o mesmo que tubiba (Scaptotrigona tubiba)
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 tupi
- tupis plural
- tupí alternative
- tupís plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tupi in Portuguese?
tupi appears 4.5 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).