flaky

1. 1.

   made of or resembling flakes

   “flaky soap”

   Synonymsflakey
2. 2.

   made of or easily forming flakes

   Synonymsflakey

   Similartender
3. 3.

   conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

   “restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit”

   “famed for his eccentric spelling”

   “a freakish combination of styles”

   “his off-the-wall antics”

   “the outlandish clothes of teenagers”

   “outre and affected stage antics”

   Synonymsbizarreeccentricfreakishfreakyflakeygonzooff-the-walloutlandishoutre

   Similarunconventional

Other forms of flaky

comparative or superlative

flakier

comparative or superlative

flakiest

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 flaky

What does flaky mean?

flaky means "made of or resembling flakes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flaky?

flaky has 2 syllables: fla-ky. The stress falls on "fla". In IPA it is /ˈfleɪki/.

What is another word for flaky?

Close synonyms include flakey, flakey, bizarre, eccentric, freakish. 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 flaky a common word?

flaky 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.