sexy
/ˈsɛksi/adjective
sexy is spelled S-E-X-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is secksy: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 5,000 of all searches for the word. Sexy is an adjective meaning “Having sex appeal; attractive”.
How many letters and syllables are in sexy?
| Letters | 4: S-E-X-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, secksy, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell sexy?
Sexy is spelled S-E-X-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 4,113 of the searches for sexy in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is sexy?
Sexy appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 sexy?
- US /ˈsɛksi/
- Australia /ˈseksi/
- /ˈsɛkse/
Sexy has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sexy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sexy?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sexy from its last stressed vowel (/ɛksi/):
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 sexy
- sexier comparative
- sexiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sexy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having sex appeal; attractive.
The participants in the swimsuit competition are all very sexy.
- 2
Intriguing, appealing, likely to excite interest.
The manufacturers have launched a sexy new car.
- 3
rareSexual; relating to or involving sex.
He didn't really like me; all he wanted was for me to be sexy with him.
- 4
Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six.
(73,79) is a sexy prime pair.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sexy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having sexual appeal:
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 sexy come from?
From sex + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).