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fudgy

/ˈfʌdʒi/adjective

fudgy is an adjective meaning “Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-D-G-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fudgy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.

  2. 2

    Fuzzy, imprecise.

  3. 3

    archaicIrritable.

  4. 4

    archaicAwkward.

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

How do you pronounce fudgy?

  • /ˈfʌdʒi/

Fudgy 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fudgy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fudgy

  • fudgier comparative
  • fudgiest superlative
  • fudgey

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

How common is fudgy?

Fudgy appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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 fudgy come from?

From fudge + -y.

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