spoof
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spoof sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1poofs
- One letter away
- 4spook, spool
What it means
- nouna composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- verbmake a parody of
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p 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
- roof
- waterproof
- woof
- bulletproof
- poof
- rustproof
- shatterproof
- sunroof
- weatherproof
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: poofs.
One letter away
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.