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spoof

/spuːf/noun, adjective, verb

spoof is spelled S-P-O-O-F: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spoof means “An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spoof is spoofs.

How many letters and syllables are in spoof?

Letters5: S-P-O-O-F
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 spoof?

Spoof appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 spoof?

  • US /spuːf/

As a noun (“Semen”): /spʊf/.

Spoof 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: En-us-spoof.ogg, En-au-spoof.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-spoof_(semen).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with spoof?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as spoof from its last stressed vowel (/uf/):

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 spoof

  • spoofs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • spoofing participle, present
  • spoofed participle, past

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

What does spoof mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.

  2. 2

    A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.

    Don't click anything on that website! That whole site is a spoof! Call IT right now.

  3. 3

    A light parody.

  4. 4

    UKA drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.

  5. 5

    Nonsense.

  6. 6

    A constructed number or solution that saitisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.

  7. 7

    AustraliaslangSemen.

adjective

  1. 1

    Fake, hoax.

verb

  1. 1

    To gently satirize.

  2. 2

    To deceive.

  3. 3

    To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes.

    The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.

  4. 4

    AustraliaslangTo ejaculate, to come.

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

Spoof in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchduperie, farce (act of deception, hoax), parodie (light parody), blague (nonsense), parodier (to gently satirize), tromper (to deceive)
Portuguesepersuasão (act of deception, hoax), paródia (light parody), besteira (nonsense), satirizar (to gently satirize), persuadir (to deceive), falsificar (to falsify)
Spanishengaño (act of deception, hoax), parodia (light parody), disparate (nonsense), parodiar (to gently satirize), engañar (to deceive), suplantar (to falsify)
GermanParodie (light parody), reinlegen, parodieren (to gently satirize), täuschen, verschleiern (to deceive), fälschen (to falsify)

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 spoof come from?

Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

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

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