eff

Other forms of eff

past tense

effed·

present participle

effing·

third person

effs·

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 eff

What does eff mean?

eff means "have sexual intercourse with".

How many syllables are in eff?

eff has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for eff?

Close synonyms include sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love. 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 eff a common word?

eff is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.