# loft

> English word · Noun · IPA /lɒft/ · frequency rank #14,786

## Definitions
1. Air, 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. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
4. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
5. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
6. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
7. Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
8. The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
9. A lofted drive.
10. A floor or room placed above another.

## Etymology
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.
Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).

## Easily confused with
- **Lt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lt)
- **lot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lot)
- **low** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-low)
- **lol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lol)
- **los** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-los)
- **log** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-log)
- **Lou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lou)
- **loo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-loo)
- **Lon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lon)
- **LST** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lst)
- **LRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lrt)
- **lor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lor)
- **lop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lop)
- **lox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lox)
- **loy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-loy)
- **Loh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-loh)
- **love** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-love)
- **long** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-long)
- **look** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-look)
- **lost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loft-vs-lost)

## Common misspellings (6)
`lfot`, `lloft`, `lofft`, `loftt`, `lotf`, `olft`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/loft