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floody

adjective

floody is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to or characteristic of a flood or flooding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-O-D-Y, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does floody mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to or characteristic of a flood or flooding

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

Forms of floody

  • floodier comparative
  • more floody comparative
  • floodiest superlative
  • most floody superlative

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

How common is floody?

Floody appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).

Where does floody come from?

From Middle English floody, fludy, equivalent to flood + -y.

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