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turny

adjective

turny is spelled T-U-R-N-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, turny means “Characterized by turns or a turning motion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in turny?

Letters5: T-U-R-N-Y
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is turny?

Turny appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).

What rhymes with turny?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as turny.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: runty.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of turny

  • more turny comparative
  • most turny superlative

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

What does turny mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    informalCharacterized by turns or a turning motion.

    a twisty, turny road in the mountains

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

Where does turny come from?

From turn + -y.

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

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