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nuff

/nʌf/adverb

nuff is spelled N-U-F-F: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, nuff means “Pronunciation spelling of 'nough, shortening of enough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in nuff?

Letters4: N-U-F-F
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 nuff?

Nuff appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd 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 nuff?

  • US /nʌf/
  • Australia /nɐf/
  • /nʊf/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-'nuff.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nuff.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with nuff

Sounds like: knuff (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with nuff?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nuff from its last stressed vowel (/ʌf/):

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 nuff

  • 'nough

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does nuff mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of 'nough, shortening of enough,

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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