cost of money
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cost of money |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cost of money” in English
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
- 1The interest rate paid for borrowed funds or the interest itself.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cost of money appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The government has also deregulated interest rates, letting the market decide the cost of money.
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.