Definitions for salty

salty salt·y

Spelling: [sawl-tee]
IPA: /ˈsɔl ti/

Salty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in salty (alsty).

Definitions for salty

adjective

  1. tasting of or containing salt; saline.
  2. piquant; sharp; witty.
  3. racy or coarse:
  4. of the sea, sailing, or life at sea.

Origin of salty

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at salt1, -y1

Examples for salty

A strong, salty fragrance, wet and sweet, floated on the breeze.

The water that forms rain comes from the ocean, yet the rain is not salty.

The buttery, nutty, and sweet and salty all work together to form a balance of flavors.

The wind blew dry, salty air from the former seabed far to the south and east.

By the late 1990s the sea level dropped by 16 meters, leaving fishing boats and ships resting on the sandy and salty bottom.

The chicken, fried in impeccably fresh peanut oil, is enveloped in a salty skin that peels away in bacon-rich strips.

But what about the screams, the salty puddles, and big empty packages of frozen fish lying on the ground outside the fence?

Every fluid of the body is salty, and every cell of the body is bathed in salt water.

The air was heavy, and the salty flavor of the flats might almost be tasted in it.

This sea stirred not, while the air above it was frozen in salty silence.

Word Value for salty
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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