pixy

Other forms of pixy

plural

pixies·

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 pixy

What does pixy mean?

pixy means "creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pixy?

pixy has 2 syllables: pix-y. The stress falls on "pix".

What is another word for pixy?

Close synonyms include pyxie, pixie, Pyxidanthera barbulata, elf, hob. 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 pixy a common word?

pixy 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.