marshy

Other forms of marshy

comparative or superlative

marshier

comparative or superlative

marshiest

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 marshy

What does marshy mean?

marshy means "(of soil) soft and watery".

How many syllables are in marshy?

marshy has 2 syllables: mar-shy. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹʃi/.

What is another word for marshy?

Close synonyms include boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy. 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 marshy a common word?

marshy 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.