patty

Other forms of patty

plural

patties·

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 patty

What does patty mean?

patty means "small flat mass of chopped food". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patty?

patty has 2 syllables: pat-ty. The stress falls on "pat". In IPA it is /ˈpæti/.

What is another word for patty?

Close synonyms include cake. 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 patty a common word?

patty is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.