spiny

Other forms of spiny

comparative or superlative

spinier

comparative or superlative

spiniest

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 spiny

What does spiny mean?

spiny means "having spines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spiny?

spiny has 2 syllables: spi-ny. The stress falls on "spi". In IPA it is /ˈspaɪni/.

What is another word for spiny?

Close synonyms include spinous, barbed, barbellate, briary, briery. 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 spiny a common word?

spiny 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.