nutty

Other forms of nutty

comparative or superlative

nuttier

comparative or superlative

nuttiest

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 nutty

What does nutty mean?

nutty means "having the flavor of nuts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nutty?

nutty has 2 syllables: nut-ty. The stress falls on "nut". In IPA it is /ˈnʌti/.

What is another word for nutty?

Close synonyms include nutlike, balmy, barmy, bats, batty. 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 nutty a common word?

nutty 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.