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mindy

[ˈmɪndi]noun

mindy is spelled M-I-N-D-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Mindy, the name). As a noun, mindy means “Knife” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mindy is mindies.

How many letters and syllables are in mindy?

Letters5: M-I-N-D-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th 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 mindy?

Mindy appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Mindy, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce mindy?

  • [ˈmɪndi]

Mindy 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).

Forms of mindy

  • mindies plural
  • mindi
  • mindey

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

What does mindy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangKnife.

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

Where does mindy come from?

Borrowed from Somali mindí.

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

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