maty
adjective
maty is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of matey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does maty mean?
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of matey
noun
- 1
archaicA native house servant in India.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of maty
- matee
- matey
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is maty?
Maty appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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 maty come from?
Uncertain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).