screechy

Questions about screechy

What does screechy mean?

screechy means "having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge".

How many syllables are in screechy?

screechy has 2 syllables and divides as scree-chy 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 screechy?

Close synonyms include screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing. 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 screechy a common word?

screechy 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.