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fatty

/ˈfæt.i/adjective, noun

fatty is spelled F-A-T-T-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, fatty means “Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fatty?

Letters5: F-A-T-T-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is fatty?

Fatty appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 fatty?

  • UK /ˈfæt.i/
  • US /ˈfæt.i/

Fatty has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-fatty.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fatty?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fatty from its last stressed vowel (/æti/):

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 fatty

  • fattier comparative
  • fattiest superlative
  • fatties plural
  • fattie

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

What does fatty mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.

    fatty tissues

  2. 2

    Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat.

    fatty liver

  3. 3

    Like fat; greasy.

  4. 4

    Of or related to fat.

    fatty acid

  5. 5

    slangLiterally or figuratively large.

    I'm trying to get a fatty project done in a couple of hours right now.

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryslangAn obese person.

    It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty!

  2. 2

    slangA large marijuana cigar; a blunt.

  3. 3

    A type of game played with marbles.

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

Fatty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgras (containing fat), patapouf (fat person)
Germanfettig (containing fat), Fettsack, Fettwanst (fat person)
Portuguesegorduroso (containing fat), gordo (like fat, greasy)
Spanishgraso, pingüedinoso (containing fat), pingüe, grasoso, mantecoso (like fat, greasy)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does fatty come from?

From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).

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

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