Hoodie or hoody?
hoodie is a noun meaning “A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at…”; hoody is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of hoodie”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) hoodie is about 13 times as common as hoody.
What is the difference between hoodie and hoody?
| hoodie | hoody | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, adjective |
| Meaning | A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front The hooded crow, Corvus cornix | The hooded crow ScotlandThe hooded gull |
| Example | You can buy hoodies on the cheap in summer | none recorded |
| Forms | hoodies | hoodies |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhʊdi/ /ˈhɵdɪj/ /ˈhʉde/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words | about once in every 5 million words |
Sources: hoodie and hoody in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of hoodie and hoody
hoodie
- 1
A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front
You can buy hoodies on the cheap in summer
- 2
UKderogatoryslangA young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male, stereotypically associated with antisocial behaviour
- 3
slangA foreskin
- 4
The hooded crow, Corvus cornix
hoody
- 1
Alternative spelling of hoodie
- 2
slangCharacteristic of inner-city life, especially that of crime-ridden ghettos
- 3
The hooded crow
- 4
ScotlandThe hooded gull
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, hoodie or hoody?
hoodie appears 2.5 times per million words; hoody about once in every 5 million words.
hoodie 2.5 times per million wordshoody about once in every 5 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search hoodie vs hoody?
“hoodie vs hoody” is searched about 10 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
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