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Definition: Achy |
AchyAdjective1. Causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her old achy joints". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AchySynonym: aching (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Achy |
| English words defined with "achy": aching. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) My achy breaky heart, ("Achy Breaky Heart"; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) | |
Song Titles | Achy Breaky Song (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It can produce symptoms that are frequently overlooked or ignored â€" a slight stomachache and achy muscles and joints. (references) | |
You're coughing and sneezing and tired and achy. You think that you might be getting a cold. Later, when the medicines you've been taking to relieve the symptoms of the common cold are not working and you've now got a terrible headache, you finally drag yourself to the doctor. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Achy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Achy" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
achy breaky heart | 60 |
achy breaky heart lyrics | 18 |
achy leg | 11 |
achy joint | 8 |
achy | 8 |
achy foot | 4 |
achy muscle | 3 |
achy billy breaky cyrus heart ray | 3 |
achy knee | 3 |
achy obejas | 3 |
achy billy breaky cyrus heart lyrics ray | 2 |
achy bones | 2 |
achy lahcen | 2 |
achy breaky | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "achy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | دردناک (Angry, Grievous, Painful, Sore), درداور. (various references) | |
French | endolori (aching). (various references) | |
German | schmerzhaft (aching, dolorous, dolorously, painful, painfully). (various references) | |
Italian | doloroso (aching, distressing, dolorous, grievous, painful, sad, sore, woeful, woesome). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achyay.(various references) | |
Russian | болезненный (afflictive, ailing, cachectic, morbid, painful, peccant, pimping, sickly, squeamish, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "achy": beachy, headachy, leachy, logomachy, naumachy, peachy, poachy, preachy, spinachy, stomachy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "achy": brachycephalic, brachycephalies, brachycephaly, brachypterous, pachyderm, pachydermatous, pachyderms, pachysandra, pachysandras, pachytene, pachytenes, tachyarrhythmia, tachyarrhythmias, tachycardia, tachycardias, tachyon, tachyons, trachyte, trachytes, trachytic. (additional references) | |
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"Achy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aach, aahhhh, Abhay, acey, acgh, acha, achey, Achh, Achi, achie, Achil, Achim, A'chir, acht, Achu, Achym, acj, Acmh, acoy, acry, acth, acty, acy, acyt, agh, ahc, ahy, aich, ajh, Akcay, Akey, Akh, Akhu, alchy, Asch, athi, athy, aty, auch, auh, azhy, cauy, Chhy, chy, Cyh, echy, Iachr, Iphy, jach, lachy, Nauchny, tachy, uch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "achy" (pronounced ā"kē) |
| 3 | ā" k ē | flaky, shaky. |
| 2 | -k ē | anarchy, balky, bookie, bulky, cheeky, chunky, clunky, cocky, cookie, Corky, cranky, creaky, dashiki, Dickey, Dickie, dicky, dinky, Jacky, jerky, jockey, junkie, junky, karaoke, khaki, kinky, kolinski, kooky, lackey, lanky, leaky, donkey, finicky, freaky, frisky, funky, garlicky, gawky, geeky, gimmicky, hanky, Hickey, hierarchy, hockey, hokey, honky, hooky, hunky, husky, inky, loci, Luckie, lucky, malarkey, matriarchy, Mickey, milky, monarchy, monkey, mucky, murky, Muskie, musky, oligarchy, panicky, patriarchy, perky, pesky, picky, Pinkie, pinky, plucky, pokey, poky, porky, psyche, punky, quickie, quirky, Rickey, risky, rocky, rookie, Saki, silky, slinky, Smokey, smoky, sneaky, sparky, spiky, spooky, spunky, squeaky, stalky, sticky, stinky, stocky, sukiyaki, swanky, tacky, talkie, talky, techie, teriyaki, tricky, Turkey, unlucky, wacky, whiskey, whisky, yucky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chay. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-y" | |
-1 letter: cay, hay, yah. | |
-2 letters: ah, ay, ha, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-y" | |
+1 letter: chary, chays, yacht. | |
+2 letters: archly, beachy, catchy, chaffy, chalky, chally, chammy, champy, chancy, chanty, charry, chasmy, chatty, hackly, leachy, patchy, peachy, poachy, whacky, yachts. | |
+3 letters: alchemy, alchymy, anarchy, anchovy, archery, archway, branchy, cachexy, chantey, chantry, charily, charity, charley, charpoy, chayote, cheaply, chlamys, clayish, diarchy, dyarchy, ecthyma, eparchy, exarchy, hackney, halcyon, haycock, hayrack, hayrick, hyaenic, hyraces, paunchy, preachy, raunchy, snatchy, starchy, tachyon, thatchy, unchary, yachted, yachter, yashmac. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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