fatty

Other forms of fatty

plural

fatties·

comparative or superlative

fattier

comparative or superlative

fattiest

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 fatty

What does fatty mean?

fatty means "a rotund individual". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fatty?

fatty has 2 syllables: fat-ty. The stress falls on "fat". In IPA it is /ˈfæti/.

What is another word for fatty?

Close synonyms include fatso, fat person, roly-poly, butterball, fat. 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.

What is the opposite of fatty?

The recorded antonyms are nonfat.

Is fatty a common word?

fatty 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.