twiggy
adjective
twiggy is an adjective meaning “Having many twigs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-W-I-G-G-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does twiggy mean?
adjective
- 1
Having many twigs.
- 2
Thin and angular.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce twiggy?
Twiggy 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-twiggy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of twiggy
- twiggier comparative
- twiggiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is twiggy?
Twiggy appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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 twiggy come from?
From twig + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).