roof
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, roof 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
- 11goof, hoof
What it means
- nouna protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
- nounprotective covering on top of a motor vehicle
- nounthe inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aloof
- fireproof
- foolproof
- goof
- hoof
- proof
- spoof
- waterproof
- woof
- bulletproof
- poof
- rustproof
- shatterproof
- sunroof
- weatherproof
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.