emmy

1. 1.

   an annual award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in television

   Broaderaward

Other forms of emmy

plural

emmies·

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 emmy

What does emmy mean?

emmy means "an annual award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in television".

How many syllables are in emmy?

emmy has 2 syllables: em-my. The stress falls on "em". In IPA it is /ˈɛmi/.

Is emmy a common word?

emmy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.