mess + -y → messy
Source: wiktionary
-y
//i//
Synonyms for "-y" (26 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Translations
209 translations across 35 languages.
Armenian
4 entries- ակ suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- իկ suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ություն suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- ուկ suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Asturian
4 entries- ina suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- osa suffix (having the quality of)
- osu suffix (having the quality of)
- ín suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Catalan
2 entries- et suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- eta suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 兒 /儿 suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- 子 suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Dutch
4 entries- che suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- etje suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- heid suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- ie suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Esperanto
1 entries- et suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Finnish
4 entries- inen suffix (having the quality of)
- nen suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- uus suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- va suffix (inclined to)
French
4 entries- et suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ette suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ie suffix (used in the name of some locations ending in -ia in Latin)
- in suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Galician
4 entries- dade suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- ento suffix (having the quality of)
- ento suffix (inclined to)
- iño suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Georgian
3 entries- სი- -ე suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- ული suffix (having the quality of)
- ური suffix (having the quality of)
German
4 entries- chen suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- erl suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- heit suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- i suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Hebrew
2 entries- ־ון suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ־ית suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Hungarian
4 entries- as suffix (having the quality of)
- es suffix (having the quality of)
- ka suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ke suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Interlingua
2 entries- etta suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- etto suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Irish
2 entries- ach suffix (having the quality of)
- ín suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Italian
4 entries- etta suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- etto suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ina suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ino suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Japanese
4 entries- ちゃん suffix (forming familiar names)
- みたい suffix (having the quality of)
- 付き suffix (having the quality of)
- 有り suffix (having the quality of)
Latin
4 entries- ia suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- ium suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- osus suffix (having the quality of)
- tas suffix (forming abstract nouns)
Middle English
1 entries- y suffix (having the quality of)
Middle Low German
1 entries- eken suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Neapolitan
1 entries- illo suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- ik suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ok suffix (inclined to)
- ok suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- tî suffix (forming abstract nouns)
Norwegian
1 entries- ig suffix (having the quality of)
Polish
4 entries- ek suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ka suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ko suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- liwy suffix (inclined to)
Portuguese
4 entries- ento suffix (inclined to)
- ia suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- idade suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- inho suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Romanian
4 entries- aș suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- el suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- enie suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- ică suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Russian
4 entries- ек suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ивый suffix (having the quality of)
- ивый suffix (inclined to)
- ий suffix (having the quality of)
Sanskrit
2 entries- इक suffix (having the quality of)
- इन् suffix (having the quality of)
Spanish
4 entries- dad suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- edumbre suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- eja suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ejo suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Swedish
4 entries- aktig suffix (having the quality of)
- dom suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- else suffix (forming abstract nouns)
- het suffix (forming abstract nouns)
Tagalog
1 entries- ma suffix (having the quality of)
Tamil
1 entries- ஆன suffix (having the quality of)
Turkish
4 entries- cak suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- cağız suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ceğiz suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- cik suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ий suffix (having the quality of)
- ий suffix (inclined to)
- ий suffix (forming abstract nouns)
Welsh
3 entries- cyn suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- ig suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
- os suffix (forming diminutive nouns)
Sample sentences
42 total sentences available.
mouse + -y → mousy
Source: wiktionary
blue + -y → bluey
Source: wiktionary
clay + -y → clayey
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.