kloof
/kluf/noun
kloof is a noun meaning “A deep glen or ravine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-L-O-O-F, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kloof is kloofs.
What does kloof mean?
noun
- 1
A deep glen or ravine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kloof?
- US /kluf/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-kloof.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of kloof
- kloofs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kloof?
Kloof appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does kloof come from?
Borrowed from Dutch kloof (“ravine”) (South Africa). Doublet of clove (“deep or narrow valley”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).