buff
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, buff 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
- 13cuff, duff
What it means
- adjectiveof the yellowish-beige color of buff leather
- nounan ardent follower and admirer
- nouna soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b 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
- cuff
- duff
- enough
- fluff
- foodstuff
- gruff
- handcuff
- huff
- muff
- puff
- rebuff
- rough
- ruff
- scuff
- snuff
- stuff
- tough
- dyestuff
- earmuff
- guff
- luff
- slough
- overstuff
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.