organdy
/ˈɔːɡəndi/noun
organdy is a noun meaning “A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-G-A-N-D-Y, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of organdy is organdies.
What does organdy mean?
noun
- 1
A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce organdy?
- UK /ˈɔːɡəndi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of organdy
- organdies plural
- organdie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is organdy?
Organdy appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Organdy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense transparent fabric:
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 organdy come from?
From French organdi, possibly derived from the French name of the city Urgench.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).