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economy

/iˈkɑ.nə.mi/noun, adjective, adverb

economy is spelled E-C-O-N-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is eceonomy: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,000 of all searches for the word. Economy is a noun meaning “The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources”. The plural of economy is economies.

How many letters and syllables are in economy?

Letters7: E-C-O-N-O-M-Y
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing74 times per million words; the 1,427th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, eceonomy, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell economy?

Economy is spelled E-C-O-N-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,008 of the searches for economy in either form.

economythe right spelling10,070 searches a month
eceonomyan extra e10 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is economy?

Economy appears 74 times per million words in written English, the 1,427th 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).

How do you pronounce economy?

  • UK /ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/
  • UK /iːˈkɒ.nə.mi/
  • US /iˈkɑ.nə.mi/

Economy has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-economy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with economy?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as economy from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnəmi/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of economy

  • economies plural

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

What does economy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteThe regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.

    animal economy, vegetable economy

  2. 2

    obsoleteSystem of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies.

    the Jewish economy

  4. 4

    obsoleteThe disposition or arrangement of any work.

    the economy of a poem

  5. 5

    The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.

  6. 6

    Frugal use of resources.

    economy of word

  7. 7

    The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

  8. 8

    The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

    The economy of God is in Jesus Christ alone.

adjective

  1. 1

    Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.

    He bought an economy car.

adverb

  1. 1

    USIn or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.

    Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.

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

How do you abbreviate economy?

Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of economy: Econ., eco, econ, econ..

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

Economy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchéconomie (effective management of the resources of a…)
GermanWirtschaft, Ökonomie (effective management of the resources of a…)
Portugueseeconomia (effective management of the resources of a…), frugalidade (frugal use of resources), económico, econômico (cheap to run)
Spanisheconomía (effective management of the resources of a…), económico (cheap to run)

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 economy come from?

From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French yconomie or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.

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

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