tufted

Other forms of tufted

comparative

tuftedder·

superlative

tufteddest·

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 tufted

What does tufted mean?

tufted means "(of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tufted?

tufted has 2 syllables: tuf-ted. The stress falls on "tuf". In IPA it is /ˈtʌftɪd/.

What is another word for tufted?

Close synonyms include caespitose, cespitose, crested, topknotted. 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 tufted a common word?

tufted 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.