scuff
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scuff sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1cuffs
- One letter away
- 5scoff, snuff
What it means
- nouna slipper that has no fitting around the heel
- nounthe act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet)
- verbwalk without lifting the feet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ah1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bluff
- buff
- cuff
- duff
- enough
- fluff
- foodstuff
- gruff
- handcuff
- huff
- muff
- puff
- rebuff
- rough
- ruff
- snuff
- stuff
- tough
- dyestuff
- earmuff
- guff
- luff
- slough
- overstuff
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: cuffs.
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.