shroff
/ʃɹɔf/noun, verb
shroff is spelled S-H-R-O-F-F: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shroff means “A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shroff is shroffs.
How many letters and syllables are in shroff?
| Letters | 6: S-H-R-O-F-F |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 77,666th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is shroff?
Shroff appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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 shroff?
- UK /ʃɹɒf/
- US /ʃɹɔf/
- US /ʃɹɑf/
Shroff 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-shroff.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with shroff?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as shroff from its last stressed vowel (/ɔf/):
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 shroff
- shroffs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- shroffing participle, present
- shroffed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shroff mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
IndiaA provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin.
The sheraffs are poore and begerly.
- 2
A cashier, especially for a car park.
- 3
The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.
verb
- 1
IndiaTo act as a shroff, especially (historical) to inspect coins to detect debasement, counterfeits, clipping, etc. for a commission.
I represented... that the money could not be divided till it was shroffed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does shroff come from?
An British Indian variant of saraf, borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi सर्राफ़ (sarrāf) / Urdu صَرَّاف (sarrāf) and Classical Persian صَرَّاف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).