boggy

Other forms of boggy

comparative

boggier·

superlative

boggiest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about boggy

What does boggy mean?

boggy means "(of soil) soft and watery".

How many syllables are in boggy?

boggy has 2 syllables: bog-gy. The stress falls on "bog".

What is another word for boggy?

Close synonyms include marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy. 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 boggy a common word?

boggy 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.