scraggly

Other forms of scraggly

comparative or superlative

scragglier

comparative or superlative

scraggliest

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 scraggly

What does scraggly mean?

scraggly means "ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scraggly?

scraggly has 2 syllables: scrag-gly. The stress falls on "scrag". In IPA it is /ˈskɹæɡli/.

What is another word for scraggly?

Close synonyms include scraggy, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny. 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 scraggly a common word?

scraggly 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.