Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cathy

/ˈkæθi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English

Syllables: cathy
IPA: /ˈkæθi/

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.

Example Sentences

"It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her; ( - - - )"
"'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon. 'Tell her to call herself Cat and, for Christ's sake, get her to stop biting her lip all the time.'"

Inflected Forms

Cathys (plural) Cathies (plural) Cathi (alternative) Cathie (alternative) Kathi (alternative) Kathie (alternative) Kathy (alternative)

Rhymes With

kathy homeopathy kathie olathe cathie kathi athey mathy

Questions

How do you pronounce cathy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæθi/.
What does cathy mean?: A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.

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