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painty

adjective

painty is spelled P-A-I-N-T-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, painty means “Covered or smeared with paint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in painty?

Letters6: P-A-I-N-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st 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 painty?

Painty appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

How do you pronounce painty?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-painty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of painty

  • paintier comparative
  • paintiest superlative

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

What does painty mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Covered or smeared with paint.

  2. 2

    Having too much paint.

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

Where does painty come from?

From paint + -y.

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

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