# woof

> English word · Noun · IPA /wuːf/ · frequency rank #24,959

## Definitions
1. The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
2. A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.
3. The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
4. Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”).
5. Something which is interwoven with another thing.
6. An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.

## Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric at right angles to the warp, weft, woof; also sometimes the warp; transverse filaments of a spider web”) [and other forms] (the forms beginning with w were influenced by warp and weft), from Old English ōwef, āwef, from ō-, ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + *wef (“web”) (only attested in the form gewef (“woof”); from wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid; to weave”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

## Easily confused with
- **wow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wow)
- **WTF** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wtf)
- **WTO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wto)
- **WWF** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wwf)
- **wot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wot)
- **wop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wop)
- **wor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wor)
- **WYO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wyo)
- **work** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-work)
- **word** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-word)
- **wore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wore)
- **worn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-worn)
- **wool** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wool)
- **worm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-worm)
- **wort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wort)
- **wook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wook)
- **wove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-wove)
- **Woolf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woof-vs-woolf)
- **wo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wo-vs-woof)
- **WF** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wf-vs-woof)

## Common misspellings (5)
`owof`, `wof`, `wofo`, `wooff`, `wwoof`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/woof