catty

Other forms of catty

plural

catties·

comparative or superlative

cattier

comparative or superlative

cattiest

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 catty

What does catty mean?

catty means "any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catty?

catty has 2 syllables: cat-ty. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkæti/.

What is another word for catty?

Close synonyms include cattie, bitchy, cattish. 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 catty a common word?

catty 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.