peppery

1. 1.

   having the piquant burning taste of peppers

   “corn chips with peppery salsa”

   Similartasty

Questions about peppery

What does peppery mean?

peppery means "having the piquant burning taste of peppers".

How many syllables are in peppery?

peppery has 3 syllables and divides as pep-pe-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is peppery a common word?

peppery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.