mucky

Other forms of mucky

comparative or superlative

muckier

comparative or superlative

muckiest

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 mucky

What does mucky mean?

mucky means "(of soil) soft and watery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mucky?

mucky has 2 syllables: muc-ky. The stress falls on "muc". In IPA it is /ˈmʌki/.

What is another word for mucky?

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

mucky 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.