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softy

noun

softy is spelled S-O-F-T-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory noun, softy means “A weak or sentimental person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of softy is softies.

How many letters and syllables are in softy?

Letters5: S-O-F-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,122nd 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 softy?

Softy appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd 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 softy?

  • Australia

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

Forms of softy

  • softies plural
  • softie

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

What does softy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryinformalA weak or sentimental person.

  2. 2

    informalSomebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish.

  3. 3

    slangA software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.

  4. 4

    CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalA soft drink containing no alcohol.

  5. 5

    informalA soft toy.

  6. 6

    slangA flaccid state of the penis.

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

Softy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanSoftie (weak or sentimental person)
Spanishsentimental (weak or sentimental person), buenazo, bonachón (somebody who finds it difficult to scold or…)

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 softy come from?

From soft + -y.

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

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