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Definition: Iffy |
IffyAdjective1. (informal) subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: IffySynonyms: chancy (adj), flukey (adj), fluky (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Iffy |
| English words defined with "iffy": chancy ♦ flukey, fluky. (references) |
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| "Iffy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Iffy" is used about 49 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% | 49 | 48,677 |
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 |
iffy | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "iffy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غير محدد (indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, sloppy, undefined). (various references) | |
Danish | Iffy's teori (Iffy theory), Iffys teori (Iffy theory). (various references) | |
Dutch | theorie van Iffy (Iffy theory). (various references) | |
Farsi | دارای لیت ولعل زیاد, دارای احتمالات زیاد. (various references) | |
French | théorie d'Iffy (Iffy theory). (various references) | |
German | zweifelhaft (backhanded, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubiously, funny, hypothetic, left handed, questionable, seedy, shady, uncertain, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Greek | αμφίβολοσ (doubtful, dubious). (various references) | |
Italian | teoria di Iffy (Iffy theory). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iffyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | teoria de Iffy (Iffy theory). (various references) | |
Russian | неопределенный (atemporal, chancy, dusty, hazy, imponderable, imprecise, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, infinite, infinitive, lax, suspenseful, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unspecified, unsure, vague). (various references) | |
Spanish | teoría de Iffy (Iffy theory). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvivelaktig (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, exceptionable, fishy, moot, problematic, questionable, shady), osäker (doubtful, fluid, insecure, precarious, shaky, touch and go, uncertain, unsafe, unsettled, unsure, vague, value impaired). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่แน่ใจ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), ไม่ค่อยแน่ใจ. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không nhất quyết (hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative), không dứt khoát (indecisive, indefinitive, undecided, unsettled). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "iffy": biffy, cliffy, jiffy, miffy, sniffy, spiffy, squiffy. (additional references) | |
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"Iffy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aff, aify, biffy, Diffwys, Diffy, efff, effi, effy, eiffy, Fi-fi, filfy, fivy, gify, iafc, ibf, icf, ifa, ifd, iff, Iffa, iffie, iffs, ifh, ifi, ifie, ifo, ify, Igf, igfy, Iifx, imfy, ivf, miffy, nfyfc, niffy, offy, piffy, riffy, tiffy, tify, ufby, wify, Yffi, zfy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "iffy" (pronounced i"fē) |
| 3 | i" f ē | jiffy, Sniffy, spiffy. |
| 2 | -f ē | apostrophe, astrophotography, atrophy, autobiography, beefy, bibliography, biography, Buffy, calligraphy, catastrophe, chaffy, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, coffee, comfy, crystallography, Daffy, demography, discography, dystrophy, fluffy, geography, goofy, hagiography, historiography, huffy, iconography, leafy, lithography, mammography, Murphy, oceanography, orthography, philosophy, photography, phytogeography, polarography, pornography, puffy, radiography, scruffy, Sophy, stuffy, Taffy, toffee, topography, trophy, typography. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-i-y" | |
-1 letter: iff. | |
-2 letters: if. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f-i-y" | |
+1 letter: biffy, fifty, jiffy, miffy. | |
+2 letters: cliffy, effigy, sniffy, spiffy. | |
+3 letters: daffily, falsify, fancify, fifthly, firefly, fortify, huffily, puffily, squiffy, stiffly, tiffany, yaffing. | |
+4 letters: affinely, affinity, efficacy, fiftyish, fitfully, fluffily, fructify, gruffily, kaffiyeh, keffiyeh, offishly, sniffily, snuffily, spiffily, stuffily. | |
+5 letters: affraying, diffusely, frenchify, ineffably, kaffiyehs, keffiyehs, officiary, raffishly, refortify, ruffianly, scruffily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 66 66 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. ..-. ..-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100110 01100110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I f f y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0066 0066 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43727291 |
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