coiffe

Other forms of coiffe

past tense

coiffed·

present participle

coiffing·

third person

coiffes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coiffe

What does coiffe mean?

coiffe means "arrange attractively".

How many syllables are in coiffe?

coiffe has 1 syllable: coiffe. In IPA it is /ˈkɔɪf/.

What is another word for coiffe?

Close synonyms include dress, arrange, set, do, coif. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coiffe a common word?

coiffe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.