beefy

Questions about beefy

What does beefy mean?

beefy means "muscular and heavily built".

How many syllables are in beefy?

beefy has 2 syllables: bee-fy. The stress falls on "bee". In IPA it is /ˈbifi/.

What is another word for beefy?

Close synonyms include burly, husky, strapping, buirdly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beefy a common word?

beefy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.