twangy
adjective
twangy is an adjective meaning “That makes a twanging sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-W-A-N-G-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does twangy mean?
adjective
- 1
That makes a twanging sound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce twangy?
Twangy 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-twangy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of twangy
- twangier comparative
- twangiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is twangy?
Twangy appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
Twangy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that makes a twanging sound:
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 twangy come from?
From twang + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).