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puft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English

Syllables
puft
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To puff.

Obsolete

noun

A puff.

Archaic

Etymology

From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

pufts (present, singular) pufting (participle, present) pufted (participle, past) pufted (past) pufts (plural)

Questions

What does puft mean?
To puff.
Where does puft come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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