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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

puffed

/pʌft/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables
puffed
IPA
/pʌft/
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of puff

adj

Inflated or swollen.

adj

Gathered up into rounded ridges.

adj

Expanded by the use of steam.

adj

Consisting of a puff; exhaled or produced in puffs.

adj

Synonym of puffed out (“panting from exercise”).

Colloquial

Example Sentences

Etymology

From puff + -ed.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more puffed (comparative) most puffed (superlative)

Phrases

puffed grain puffed rice puffed up puffed wheat

Synonyms

bulging distended tumid boln bulled extuberant farced nodose puffed protuberant swollen turgid

Rhymes With

stuffed cuffed rebuffed snuffed tuft scuffed roughed huffed luft fluffed bluffed tufte

Questions

How do you pronounce puffed?
The recorded pronunciation is /pʌft/.
What does puffed mean?
simple past and past participle of puff
Where does puffed come from?
From puff + -ed.

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