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headachy

adjective

headachy is spelled H-E-A-D-A-C-H-Y: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, headachy means “Suffering from a headache” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in headachy?

Letters8: H-E-A-D-A-C-H-Y
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th 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 headachy?

Headachy appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

Forms of headachy

  • more headachy comparative
  • most headachy superlative
  • headachey

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

What does headachy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Suffering from a headache

  2. 2

    Resembling or characteristic of a headache.

    a headachy pain

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

Where does headachy come from?

From headache + -y.

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

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