sofa

Other forms of sofa

plural

sofas·

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 sofa

What does sofa mean?

sofa means "an upholstered seat for more than one person".

How many syllables are in sofa?

sofa has 2 syllables: so-fa. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊfə/.

What is another word for sofa?

Close synonyms include couch, lounge. 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 sofa a common word?

sofa is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.