cost of money

noun

"cost-of-money" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“cost of money” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The interest rate paid for borrowed funds or the interest itself.

Corpus desk

Index EN-cost-of-money · cost of money · English

cost of money · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for cost of money
PropertyValue
Headwordcost of money
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cost of money” in English

cost of moneyfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cost of money is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The interest rate paid for borrowed funds or the interest itself.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cost of money, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cost of money, spelled C-O-S-T- -O-F- -M-O-N-E-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The interest rate paid for borrowed funds or the interest itself.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cost of money appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The government has also deregulated interest rates, letting the market decide the cost of money.
  2. Stocks and bonds have often moved in tandem recently because low interest rates make shares more appealing and cut the cost of money to companies.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cost of money"?
"cost of money" is spelled C-O-S-T- -O-F- -M-O-N-E-Y.
What does "cost of money" mean?
As a noun, "cost of money" means: The interest rate paid for borrowed funds or the interest itself.
What language does "cost of money" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list