sporty

Other forms of sporty

comparative or superlative

sportier

comparative or superlative

sportiest

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 sporty

What does sporty mean?

sporty means "exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sporty?

sporty has 2 syllables: spor-ty. The stress falls on "spor". In IPA it is /ˈspɔɹti/.

What is another word for sporty?

Close synonyms include clean, sporting, sportsmanlike, flashy, gaudy. 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 sporty a common word?

sporty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.