rangy

Other forms of rangy

comparative or superlative

rangier

comparative or superlative

rangiest

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 rangy

What does rangy mean?

rangy means "tall and thin and having long slender limbs". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rangy?

rangy has 2 syllables: ran-gy. The stress falls on "ran". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪndʒi/.

What is another word for rangy?

Close synonyms include gangling, gangly, lanky. 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 rangy a common word?

rangy 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.