yachty
noun, adjective
yachty is a noun meaning “A yachtsman or yachtswoman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Y-A-C-H-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of yachty is yachties.
What does yachty mean?
noun
- 1
informalA yachtsman or yachtswoman.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to yachts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce yachty?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-yachty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of yachty
- yachties plural
- yachtie
- yachtier comparative
- yachtiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is yachty?
Yachty appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th 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 yachty come from?
From yacht + -y (diminutive suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).