guffaw

Other forms of guffaw

plural

guffaws·

past tense

guffawed·

present participle

guffawing·

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 guffaw

What does guffaw mean?

guffaw means "a burst of deep loud hearty laughter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guffaw?

guffaw has 2 syllables: guf-faw. The stress falls on "faw". In IPA it is /ɡəˈfɔ/.

What is another word for guffaw?

Close synonyms include belly laugh, laugh loudly. 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 guffaw a common word?

guffaw 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.