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moisty

adjective

moisty is an adjective meaning “moist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-I-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does moisty mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    moist

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

Forms of moisty

  • moistier comparative
  • moistiest superlative

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

How common is moisty?

Moisty appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 moisty come from?

From Middle English moisti, moysty, equivalent to moist + -y.

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