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snappish

snap·pish/ˈsnæpɪʃ/adjective

snappish is spelled S-N-A-P-P-I-S-H: 8 letters and 2 syllables (snap·pish). It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, snappish means “Likely to snap or bite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in snappish?

Letters8: S-N-A-P-P-I-S-H
Syllables2: snap·pish
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th 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 snappish?

Snappish appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 snappish?

  • /ˈsnæpɪʃ/

Snappish has 2 syllables, split snap·pish in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-snappish.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of snappish

  • more snappish comparative
  • most snappish superlative

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

What does snappish mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Likely to snap or bite.

    A snappish cur

  2. 2

    Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.

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

Snappish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhargneux (likely to snap or bite)
Germanbissig (likely to snap or bite), patzig, schnippisch (exhibiting irritation)

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 snappish come from?

From snap + -ish.

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

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