candy

1. 1.

   a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

   Synonymsconfect

   Broadersweet

   Narrowercandy barcarob barhard candybrandyballpattybonbonbrittlebutterscotchcandy canecandy corn

1. 1.

   coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

   Synonymssugarcoatglaze

   Broadersweeten

Other forms of candy

plural

candies·

past tense or participle

candied

present participle

candying·

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 candy

What does candy mean?

candy means "a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in candy?

candy has 2 syllables: can-dy. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkændi/.

What is another word for candy?

Close synonyms include confect, sugarcoat, glaze. 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 candy a common word?

candy is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.