spongy

Other forms of spongy

comparative or superlative

spongier

comparative or superlative

spongiest

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 spongy

What does spongy mean?

spongy means "easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spongy?

spongy has 2 syllables: spon-gy. The stress falls on "spon". In IPA it is /ˈspʌndʒi/.

What is another word for spongy?

Close synonyms include squashy, squishy, spongelike, spongelike. 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 spongy a common word?

spongy 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.