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pasty

/ˈpeɪsti/adjective, noun

pasty is spelled P-A-S-T-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pasty means “Like paste, sticky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pasty?

Letters5: P-A-S-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is pasty?

Pasty appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 pasty?

  • US /ˈpeɪsti/

As a noun (“A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of…”): /ˈpæsti/, /ˈpɑːsti/.

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

Words people confuse with pasty

Sounds like: pastie (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with pasty?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pasty (/eɪsti/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: patsy.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of pasty

  • pastier comparative
  • pastiest superlative
  • pastey rare
  • pasties plural
  • pastie

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

What does pasty mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Like paste, sticky.

    These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.

  2. 2

    Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.

    He is pasty-faced.

  3. 3

    derogatoryoffensiveslangWhiteskinned.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

  2. 2

    Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).

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

Pasty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesepastoso, pegajoso, viscoso (like paste, sticky), pálido (pale, lacking colour)
Spanishpastoso, pegajoso (like paste, sticky), pálido, opaco (pale, lacking colour), empanada, paste (a type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie)

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 pasty come from?

From paste + -y (adjectival suffix).

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

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