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squatty

UK /ˈskwɒti/adjective

squatty is an adjective meaning “Somewhat squat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-Q-U-A-T-T-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does squatty mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Somewhat squat.

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

How do you pronounce squatty?

  • UK /ˈskwɒti/

Squatty 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-squatty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of squatty

  • squattier comparative
  • squattiest superlative

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

How common is squatty?

Squatty appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).

Where does squatty come from?

From squat + -y.

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