veggie

Other forms of veggie

plural

veggies·

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 veggie

What does veggie mean?

veggie means "edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant".

How many syllables are in veggie?

veggie has 2 syllables: veg-gie. The stress falls on "veg". In IPA it is /ˈvɛdʒi/.

What is another word for veggie?

Close synonyms include vegetable, veg. 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 veggie a common word?

veggie 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.