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curacy

noun

curacy is spelled C-U-R-A-C-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, curacy means “The office or position of a curate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of curacy is curacies.

How many letters and syllables are in curacy?

Letters6: C-U-R-A-C-Y
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is curacy?

Curacy appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of curacy

  • curacies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does curacy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The office or position of a curate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Curacy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchvicariat
Portuguesecuradoria

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does curacy come from?

From cur(ate) + -acy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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