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skiddy

/ˈskɪdi/adjective

skiddy is spelled S-K-I-D-D-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, skiddy means “Likely to skid, or cause skidding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in skiddy?

Letters6: S-K-I-D-D-Y
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th 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 skiddy?

Skiddy appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 skiddy?

  • /ˈskɪdi/

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

Forms of skiddy

  • skiddier comparative
  • skiddiest superlative

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

What does skiddy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Likely to skid, or cause skidding.

  2. 2

    Containing skidmarks.

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

Where does skiddy come from?

From skid + -y.

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

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