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scoffer

noun

scoffer is spelled S-C-O-F-F-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scoffer means “One who scoffs or mocks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scoffer is scoffers.

How many letters and syllables are in scoffer?

Letters7: S-C-O-F-F-E-R
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is scoffer?

Scoffer appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 scoffer?

  • Australia

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

Forms of scoffer

  • scoffers plural

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

What does scoffer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who scoffs or mocks.

  2. 2

    UKslangOne who eats a large amount.

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

Where does scoffer come from?

From scoff + -er.

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

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