loft
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, loft 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
- 8left, lift
What it means
- nounfloor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
- nounfloor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- noun(golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ao1 f t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
6 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aloft
- coughed
- scoffed
- croft
- hayloft
- oft
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.