aloof
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, aloof sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1loofa
- One letter away
- 1kloof
What it means
- adjectiveremote in manner
- adverbin an aloof manner
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 l uw1 f — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- fireproof
- foolproof
- goof
- hoof
- proof
- roof
- spoof
- waterproof
- woof
- bulletproof
- poof
- rustproof
- shatterproof
- sunroof
- weatherproof
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: loofa.
One letter away
- kloof
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.