tuft

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tuft sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3toft, tufa

• nouna bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
• nouna bunch of feathers or hair

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ah1 f t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

14 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• bluffed
• cuffed
• fluffed
• handcuffed
• huffed
• puffed
• rebuffed
• roughed
• scuffed
• snuffed
• stuffed
• luffed
• overstuffed
• toughed

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• toft
• tufa
• tuff

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TU578
• Ends T
• 4 letters starting T

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.