fruity

Other forms of fruity

comparative or superlative

fruitier

comparative or superlative

fruitiest

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 fruity

What does fruity mean?

fruity means "tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fruity?

fruity has 2 syllables: frui-ty. The stress falls on "frui". In IPA it is /ˈfɹuti/.

What is another word for fruity?

Close synonyms include balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers. 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 fruity a common word?

fruity 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.