lefty

Other forms of lefty

plural

lefties·

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 lefty

What does lefty mean?

lefty means "a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lefty?

lefty has 2 syllables: lef-ty. The stress falls on "lef". In IPA it is /ˈlɛfti/.

What is another word for lefty?

Close synonyms include left-hander, southpaw, left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander. 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 lefty a common word?

lefty 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.