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huffy

/ˈhʌfi/adjective

huffy is spelled H-U-F-F-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, huffy means “Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in huffy?

Letters5: H-U-F-F-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,122nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is huffy?

Huffy appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd 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 huffy?

  • /ˈhʌfi/

Huffy 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-huffy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of huffy

  • huffier comparative
  • huffiest superlative

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

What does huffy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    informalAngry, annoyed, indignant or irritated.

  2. 2

    informalEasily offended; thin-skinned or touchy.

  3. 3

    informalHaughty, arrogant.

  4. 4

    informalPuffed up.

    huffy bread

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

Huffy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvexé (Angry, annoyed), susceptible (Easily offended)
Germanverärgert (Angry, annoyed), empfindlich (Easily offended)

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 huffy come from?

From huff + -y.

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

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