porgy

Other forms of porgy

plural

porgies·

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 porgy

What does porgy mean?

porgy means "lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in porgy?

porgy has 2 syllables: por-gy. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹɡi/.

What is another word for porgy?

Close synonyms include scup. 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 porgy a common word?

porgy 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.