waft

Other forms of waft

plural

wafts·

past tense

wafted·

present participle

wafting·

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 waft

What does waft mean?

waft means "be driven or carried along, as by the air". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waft?

waft has 1 syllable: waft. In IPA it is /ˈwɑft/.

What is another word for waft?

Close synonyms include pennant, pennon, streamer. 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 waft a common word?

waft 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.