luffa

Other forms of luffa

plural

luffas·

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 luffa

What does luffa mean?

luffa means "the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in luffa?

luffa has 2 syllables: luf-fa. The stress falls on "luf".

What is another word for luffa?

Close synonyms include loofa, loofah, loufah sponge, dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd. 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 luffa a common word?

luffa 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.