UF
Portuguese, noun
UF is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “initialism of unidade federativa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does UF mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfeminineinitialism of unidade federativa
- 2
Brazilfeminineinitialism of unidade da federação
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Unidade da Federação; unidade federativa
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 UF
- UFs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is UF in Portuguese?
UF appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).