roof
/ɹuːf/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An overhanging rock wall.
Example Sentences
- "The roof was blown off by the tornado."
- "'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach."
- "The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof."
- "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn! Burn, motherfucker, burn!"
- "Let's go up to the roof."
- "When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there, the world below can't bother me..."
Etymology
From Middle English rhof, rof, roof, rooff, rufe, ruffe, from Old English hrōf (“roof; heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrapo- (“roof”), from *krāwə- (“to cover, heap”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Faroese rógv (“roof”); also Czech, Polish, and Slovene strop (“ceiling”), Russian строп (strop, “attic, loft, roof”), Serbo-Croatian стро̏п, strȍp (“ceiling”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rhof, hrōf, *hrōf, *hrōfą, *ḱrapo-, rofen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹuːf/
- British English: /ɹuːf/