sooty

Other forms of sooty

comparative or superlative

sootier

comparative or superlative

sootiest

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 sooty

What does sooty mean?

sooty means "of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sooty?

sooty has 2 syllables: soo-ty. The stress falls on "soo". In IPA it is /ˈsuti/.

What is another word for sooty?

Close synonyms include coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy. 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 sooty a common word?

sooty 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.