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roofie

roof·ie/ˈɹu.fi/noun, verb

roofie is spelled R-O-O-F-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (roof·ie). It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, roofie means “Synonym of rohypnol: flunitrazepam, a hypnotic drug (sleeping pill), sometimes used as a date rape drug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of roofie is roofies.

How many letters and syllables are in roofie?

Letters6: R-O-O-F-I-E
Syllables2: roof·ie
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 roofie?

Roofie appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 roofie?

  • UK /ˈɹuː.fi/
  • US /ˈɹu.fi/

Roofie has 2 syllables, split roof·ie in writing.

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

What rhymes with roofie?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as roofie from its last stressed vowel (/ufi/):

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 roofie

  • roofies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • rufie
  • rophy
  • roofieing participle, present
  • roofied participle, past

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

What does roofie mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangSynonym of rohypnol: flunitrazepam, a hypnotic drug (sleeping pill), sometimes used as a date rape drug.

  2. 2

    slangSynonym of date rape drug.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo put roofies in; to spike with roofies.

    Someone roofied her drink, but she found out and poured it away.

  2. 2

    slangTo cause someone to (usually unknowingly) ingest roofies.

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

Roofie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense slang: flunitrazepam:

LanguageWords
Frenchroofie, rup

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 roofie come from?

From Rohypnol, a brand name of flunitrazepam.

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

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