loft
/lɔft/noun, verb
loft is spelled L-O-F-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, loft means “An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of loft is lofts.
How many letters and syllables are in loft?
| Letters | 4: L-O-F-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is loft?
Loft appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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).
How do you pronounce loft?
- UK /lɒft/
- US /lɔft/
- /lɑft/
Loft has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-loft.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-loft.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with loft?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as loft from its last stressed vowel (/ɔft/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of loft
- lofts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- lofting participle, present
- lofted participle, past
- more loft comparative
- most loft superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does loft mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteAir, the air; the sky, the heavens.
- 2
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
- 3
Such an attic used as an atelier.
an artist's loft
- 4
The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
maximum loft
- 5
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
a choir loft
- 6
USA residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
a Manhattan loft
- 7
Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
- 8
The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
verb
- 1
To propel high into the air.
- 2
To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- 3
To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- 4
To furnish with a loft space.
- 5
To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
noun
- 1
loss of fluid test
adjective
- 1
obsoleterareLofty; proud; haughty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Loft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an attic or similar space:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grenier |
| German | Dachboden, Dachgeschoss |
| Portuguese | sótão |
| Spanish | desván, buhardilla, tapanco, zaquizamí, buharda, bohardilla |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does loft come from?
From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).