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yeasty

/ˈjiːsti/adjective

yeasty is spelled Y-E-A-S-T-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, yeasty means “Having or resembling yeast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in yeasty?

Letters6: Y-E-A-S-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is yeasty?

Yeasty appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).

How do you pronounce yeasty?

  • /ˈjiːsti/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-yeasty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of yeasty

  • yeastier comparative
  • yeastiest superlative

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

What does yeasty mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having or resembling yeast.

  2. 2

    Foamy and frothy.

  3. 3

    Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)

  4. 4

    Trivial.

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

Where does yeasty come from?

From yeast + -y.

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

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