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stuffed

/stʌft/adjective, verb

stuffed is spelled S-T-U-F-F-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, stuffed means “Full or packed (with some material or substance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stuffed?

Letters7: S-T-U-F-F-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing9.1 times per million words; the 7,553rd 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 stuffed?

Stuffed appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd 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 stuffed?

  • US /stʌft/
  • /stʊft/
  • /stəft/

Stuffed 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-au-stuffed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with stuffed?

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

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 stuffed

  • more stuffed comparative
  • most stuffed superlative

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

What does stuffed mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Full or packed (with some material or substance).

    Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills

  2. 2

    Filled with a filling and seasoning.

    We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.

  3. 3

    slangFull after eating.

    Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills

  4. 4

    AustraliaIrelandUKinformalVery tired.

  5. 5

    AustraliaIrelandUKBroken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Stuffed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbourré, farci (with material)
Germanausgestopft (with material), faschiert, gefüllt (with food)
Portuguesecheio, repleto (with material), recheado (with food)
Spanishrelleno (with material), lleno, empachado (with food)

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 stuffed come from?

From stuff + -ed.

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

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