foamy

Other forms of foamy

comparative or superlative

foamier

comparative or superlative

foamiest

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 foamy

What does foamy mean?

foamy means "producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foamy?

foamy has 2 syllables: foa-my. The stress falls on "foa". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊmi/.

What is another word for foamy?

Close synonyms include foaming, frothing, bubbling, bubbly, foaming. 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 foamy a common word?

foamy 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.