rheumy

Questions about rheumy

What does rheumy mean?

rheumy means "moist, damp, wet (especially of air)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rheumy?

rheumy has 3 syllables and divides as rhe-u-my 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.

What is another word for rheumy?

Close synonyms include arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid. 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 rheumy a common word?

rheumy 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.