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veggie

/ˈvɛd͡ʒi/noun, adjective

veggie is spelled V-E-G-G-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, veggie means “A vegetable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of veggie is veggies.

How many letters and syllables are in veggie?

Letters6: V-E-G-G-I-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is veggie?

Veggie appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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 veggie?

  • /ˈvɛd͡ʒi/

Veggie 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: En-uk-veggie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of veggie

  • veggies plural
  • more veggie comparative
  • most veggie superlative

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

What does veggie mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalA vegetable.

  2. 2

    informalA vegetarian.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalVegetarian; not eating meat; suitable for vegetarians; without meat.

  2. 2

    Vegetable-like, vegetal.

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

Veggie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishvegetal, verdura (vegetable), vegetariano, vegetariana (vegetarian)
GermanVeggie (vegetarian)

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 veggie come from?

Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie.

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

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