salty

Other forms of salty

comparative or superlative

saltier

comparative or superlative

saltiest

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 salty

What does salty mean?

salty means "engagingly stimulating or provocative". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salty?

salty has 2 syllables: sal-ty. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˈsɔlti/.

What is another word for salty?

Close synonyms include piquant. 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.

What is the opposite of salty?

The recorded antonyms are fresh.

Is salty a common word?

salty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.