caddy
cad·dy/ˈkædi/noun, verb
caddy is spelled C-A-D-D-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables (cad·dy). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “caddie vs caddy” about 140 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, caddy means “A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of caddy is caddies.
How many letters and syllables are in caddy?
| Letters | 5: C-A-D-D-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: cad·dy |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,418th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is caddy?
Caddy appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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).
How do you pronounce caddy?
- UK /ˈkædi/
- US /ˈkædi/
- US [-ɾi]
Caddy has 2 syllables, split cad·dy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-caddy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with caddy
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: caddie.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with caddy?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as caddy from its last stressed vowel (/ædi/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of caddy
- caddies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- caddie
- caddying participle, present
- caddied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does caddy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
- 2
A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
- 3
A small lidded bin for food waste.
- 4
A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
Place the disc in the DVD caddy.
- 5
A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
- 6
Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”).
Caddy, pass me my five iron.
verb
- 1
Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.
noun
- 1
USinformalA Cadillac car.
She pulled up in a shiny black Caddy at six o'clock.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does caddy come from?
An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).