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postie

/ˈpəʊsti/noun

postie is spelled P-O-S-T-I-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, postie means “A post-leftist (an adherent of post-left anarchism)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of postie is posties.

How many letters and syllables are in postie?

Letters6: P-O-S-T-I-E
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 postie?

Postie appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 postie?

  • /ˈpəʊsti/

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

What rhymes with postie?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as postie.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: potsie.

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 postie

  • posties plural
  • posty

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

What does postie mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A post-leftist (an adherent of post-left anarchism).

  2. 2

    CommonwealthIrelandUKcolloquialDiminutive of postman or postwoman. (a form of postman, postwoman)

    Did the postie come this morning?

  3. 3

    CanadacolloquialrareDiminutive of postal worker. (a form of postal worker)

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

Where does postie come from?

From post + -ie.

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

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