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foody

adjective, noun

foody is an adjective meaning “Eatable; fit for food or consumption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-D-Y, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does foody mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Eatable; fit for food or consumption.

  2. 2

    Food-bearing; fertile; fruitful.

  3. 3

    Of, relating to, composed of, or supplying food.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of foodie.

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

Forms of foody

  • foodier comparative
  • more foody comparative
  • foodiest superlative
  • most foody superlative
  • foodies plural

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

How common is foody?

Foody appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).

Foody in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishfoody (fudi), foodie (fudi), comidista

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 foody come from?

From food + -y.

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