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anty

an·ty/ˈæn.ti/adjective

anty is an adjective meaning “Covered with ants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-Y and has 2 syllables (an·ty), and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does anty mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Covered with ants.

  2. 2

    Antlike.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce anty?

  • UK /ˈæn.tɪ/
  • US /ˈæn.ti/

Anty has 2 syllables, split an·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-anti-.wav, En-us-anti-.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of anty

  • more anty comparative
  • most anty superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is anty?

Anty appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with anty

Sounds like: auntie (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does anty come from?

From ant + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).