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roofed

adjective, verb

roofed is spelled R-O-O-F-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, roofed means “Having a roof, or a particular kind of roof” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in roofed?

Letters6: R-O-O-F-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 38,416th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is roofed?

Roofed appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th 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 roofed?

    Roofed 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).

    Forms of roofed

    • rooved

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

    What does roofed mean?

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

    adjective

    1. 1

      Having a roof, or a particular kind of roof.

    verb

    1. 1

      simple past and past participle of roof (a form of roof)

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

    Roofed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense having a roof:

    LanguageWords
    Germanbedacht, überdacht
    Spanishtechado, a cielo cerrado

    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 roofed come from?

    From Middle English rofed derived from the noun, replaced earlier Old English hrēfed attested in unoferhrēfed (“unoverroofed”), equivalent to roof + -ed.

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

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