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waggy

adjective

waggy is an adjective meaning “Having a tendency to wag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-A-G-G-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does waggy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a tendency to wag.

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

How do you pronounce waggy?

    Waggy 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).

    Forms of waggy

    • waggier comparative
    • waggiest superlative

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

    How common is waggy?

    Waggy appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 waggy come from?

    From wag + -y.

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