Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

golfed

/ɡˈɑlft/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: golfed
IPA: /ɡˈɑlft/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of golf

adj

Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf.

Example Sentences

"One of the best optimizations of Perl programs is trimming the number of operations it has to perform. The less work it has to do, the better. This isn't an argument for obfuscated or golfed code—just good profiling […]"

Derived Forms

ungolfed

Questions

How do you pronounce golfed?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈɑlft/.
What does golfed mean?: simple past and past participle of golf

How to pronounce golfed

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