snooty
/ˈsnuːti/
"snooty" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snooty” is an uncommon English word, ranked #50,240 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #50,240
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snooty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsnuːti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “snooty” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for snooty is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsnuːti/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,240 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for snooty, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having their nose in the air (that is, acting disdainfully towards… The correct English form is snooty, spelled S-N-O-O-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
- 2Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
- 3Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
Etymology
The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having their nose in the air (that is, acting disdainfully towards others). Snoot is a dialectal variant of snout. The noun is derived from the adjective.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “snooty”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-N-O-O-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.