toffee
/ˈtɔfi/noun, verb
toffee is spelled T-O-F-F-E-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, toffee means “A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of toffee is toffees.
How many letters and syllables are in toffee?
| Letters | 6: T-O-F-F-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th 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 toffee?
Toffee appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 toffee?
- UK /ˈtɒfi/
- US /ˈtɔfi/
- US /ˈtɑfi/
Toffee has 2 syllables (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-toffee.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with toffee?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as toffee from its last stressed vowel (/ɔfi/):
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 toffee
- toffees plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- taffy
- toffy
- toffeeing participle, present
- toffeed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does toffee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
- 2
A small, individual piece of toffee.
- 3
Any kind of sweets; candy.
- 4
UKslangNonsense; rubbish.
What a load of old toffee!
verb
- 1
To coat in toffee.
noun
- 1
UKinformalA fan or member of Everton F.C..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Toffee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense uncountable: type of confectionery:
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 toffee come from?
An alteration of taffy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).