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tingly

/ˈtɪŋɡli/adjective

tingly is spelled T-I-N-G-L-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, tingly means “Producing or feeling tingles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tingly?

Letters6: T-I-N-G-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 53,573rd 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 tingly?

Tingly appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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 tingly?

  • /ˈtɪŋɡli/

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

Forms of tingly

  • tinglier comparative
  • tingliest superlative

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

What does tingly mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Producing or feeling tingles.

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

Where does tingly come from?

From tingle + -y.

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

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