Peaty

Definition: Peaty

Peaty

Adjective

1. Like peat; rich in combustible carbonized vegetable matter.

Date "peaty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Crosswords: Peaty

English words defined with "peaty": foxtail grass ♦ Lycopodium alopecuroides ♦ Moor, moorland ♦ Peat moss ♦ Turbinaceous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "peaty": fen soil ♦ highmoor, hill moor, hochmoor, humic gley soil ♦ lowmoor ♦ meermolm ♦ potassium deficiency ♦ raised bog, raised moss ♦ upland moor. (references)

"Peaty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peaty" is used about 101 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	101	32,488

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.

Language		Translations for "peaty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		torfe (peat), që i ngjan torfe. (various references)

Bulgarian		торфен (peat). (various references)

Chinese		泥煤似. (various references)

Danish		toerve- (boggy, marshy, swampy), sumpet (boggy, marshy, paludal, swampy), moseagtig (boggy, marshy, swampy). (various references)

Dutch		venig (boggy, marshy, swampy), veenrijk (boggy, marshy, swampy), veengrond bevattend (boggy, marshy, swampy), veenachtig (boggy, marshy, swampy), moerassig (boggy, marshy, paludal, swampy). (various references)

Finnish		turve- (boggy, marshy, swampy), soistunut (boggy, marshy, swampy), soinen (boggy, marshy, paludal, swampy). (various references)

French		tourbier, tourbeux, marécageux. (various references)

German		torfig. (various references)

Greek		όμοιοσ με φυτάνθρακασ, ποανθρακώδης (boggy, marshy, swampy), ποανθρακοφόρος (boggy, marshy, swampy), ελώδης (boggy, marshy, swampy), τυρφώδης (boggy, marshy, swampy). (various references)

Hebrew		כבולי. (various references)

Hungarian		tõzeges. (various references)

Italian		torboso (boggy, marshy, swampy). (various references)

Manx		moainey, moainagh (turfy). (various references)

Pig Latin		eatypay

Portuguese		pantanoso (boggy, fenugreek, logged, marital, marshy, quaggy, swampy, waterlogged), turfoso (boggy, marshy, pebble, swampy, turfy), turfeira (moor, peat bog, peatery, Turbary, turf moor), alagadiço (boggy, logged, marshy, marsupial, quaggy, swampy). (various references)

Russian		торфяной (peat, turfy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tresetni (peat), od treseta. (various references)

Spanish		turboso (boggy, marshy, swampy). (various references)

Swedish		träskartad (boggy, Fenny, marshy, paludal, swampy), torvrik, torvartad, sumpig (boggy, fenny, marshy, quaggy, swampy). (various references)

Turkish		turbaya benzer. (various references)

Ukranian		торфовий. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Peaty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eaty, epahty, epitaxy, jeaty, paety, Patay, paty, peacy, pealty, peany, Peary, peasy, peata, peate, peath, peatry, peay, peazy, peedy, peetie, Peitie, peity, pelty, pesty, petai, pete, Petey, pety, piaty, Praty, preatty, preaty, zeaty. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-p-t-y"
	-1 letter: pate, paty, peat, tape, tepa, type.
	-2 letters: ape, apt, ate, aye, eat, eta, pat, pay, pea, pet, pya, pye, tae, tap, tea, tye, yap, yea, yep, yet.
	-3 letters: ae, at, ay, et, pa, pe, ta, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-p-t-y"
	+1 letter: teapoy.
	+2 letters: adeptly, apetaly, aplenty, apteryx, ectypal, empathy, epitaxy, partyer, patency, payment, peartly, penalty, peytral, phytane, playlet, pteryla, teapoys, therapy, typable, typebar.
	+3 letters: allotype, antetype, antitype, apyretic, asperity, autotype, calotype, calypter, clypeate, egyptian, enthalpy, epinasty, epistasy, eucalypt, partyers, patently, payments, pedantry, pedately, penality, petalody, peytrals, phytanes, plastery, playdate, playlets, playmate, playtime, psaltery, pterygia, pterylae, pyruvate, scyphate, tapestry, taxpayer, teleplay, typeable, typebars, typecase, typecast, typeface.
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