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wilty

adjective

wilty is an adjective meaning “Tending to wilt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-I-L-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does wilty mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Tending to wilt.

    A few wilty plants stood in pots on the window-ledge.

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

Forms of wilty

  • more wilty comparative
  • most wilty superlative

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

How common is wilty?

Wilty appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 wilty come from?

From wilt + -y.

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