Pricey or pricy?
pricey is an adjective meaning “Expensive, dear”; pricy is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of pricey”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) pricey is about 13 times as common as pricy.
What is the difference between pricey and pricy?
| pricey | pricy | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | informalExpensive, dear | informalAlternative spelling of pricey |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | pricier, priciest | pricier, priciest |
| Pronunciation | /ˈpɹaɪsi/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 2.2 times per million words | about once in every 6 million words |
Sources: pricey and pricy in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of pricey and pricy
pricey
- 1
informalExpensive, dear
pricy
- 1
informalAlternative spelling of pricey
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, pricey or pricy?
pricey appears 2.2 times per million words; pricy about once in every 6 million words.
pricey 2.2 times per million wordspricy about once in every 6 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search pricey vs pricy?
“pricey vs pricy” is searched about 10 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.