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lispy

/ˈlɪspi/adjective

lispy is an adjective meaning “Tending to lisp when speaking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-S-P-Y, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does lispy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    informalTending to lisp when speaking.

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

How do you pronounce lispy?

  • /ˈlɪspi/

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

Forms of lispy

  • more lispy comparative
  • most lispy superlative

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

How common is lispy?

Lispy appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 lispy come from?

From lisp + -y.

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