soddy

Other forms of soddy

plural

soddies·

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 soddy

What does soddy mean?

soddy means "a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soddy?

soddy has 2 syllables: sod-dy. The stress falls on "sod".

What is another word for soddy?

Close synonyms include sod house, adobe house, Frederick Soddy. 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 soddy a common word?

soddy 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.