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deathy

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deathy is spelled D-E-A-T-H-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, deathy means “Relating to death” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in deathy?

Letters6: D-E-A-T-H-Y
In writingabout once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is deathy?

Deathy appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 deathy?

  • US

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

Forms of deathy

  • more deathy comparative
  • most deathy superlative

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

What does deathy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    archaicRelating to death.

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

Where does deathy come from?

From death + -y.

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

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