flinty

Questions about flinty

What does flinty mean?

flinty means "containing flint". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flinty?

flinty has 2 syllables: flin-ty. The stress falls on "flin". In IPA it is /ˈflɪnti/.

What is another word for flinty?

Close synonyms include flint, granitic, obdurate, stony. 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 flinty a common word?

flinty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.