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ouchy

adjective

ouchy is spelled O-U-C-H-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, ouchy means “Painful, hurtful; that is expressed by the word ouch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ouchy?

Letters5: O-U-C-H-Y
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is ouchy?

Ouchy appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).

Forms of ouchy

  • more ouchy comparative
  • most ouchy superlative

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

What does ouchy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialPainful, hurtful; that is expressed by the word ouch.

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

Where does ouchy come from?

From ouch + -y.

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

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