scoff
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scoff sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1coffs
- One letter away
- 1scuff
What it means
- nounshowing your contempt by derision
- verblaugh at with contempt and derision
- verbtreat with contemptuous disregard
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ao1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- castoff
- kickoff
- off
- payoff
- standoff
- takeoff
- trough
- blastoff
- checkoff
- cutoff
- doff
- falloff
- knockoff
- layoff
- leadoff
- liftoff
- playoff
- ripoff
- runoff
- spinoff
- stroganoff
- toff
- turnoff
- boff
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: coffs.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.