energy
/ˈɛnɚd͡ʒi/noun
energy is spelled E-N-E-R-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is engery: about 200 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 127 of all searches for the word. Energy is a noun meaning “The impetus behind all motion and all activity”. The plural of energy is energies.
How many letters and syllables are in energy?
| Letters | 6: E-N-E-R-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 170 times per million words; the 591st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, engery, about 200 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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 energy?
Energy is spelled E-N-E-R-G-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 77 of the searches for energy in either form.
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 energy?
Energy appears 170 times per million words in written English, the 591st 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 energy?
- UK /ˈɛnəd͡ʒi/
- US /ˈɛnɚd͡ʒi/
- US /ˈɪnɚd͡ʒi/
Energy has 3 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-energy.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-energy.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-energy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with energy?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as energy (/ɛnəɹdʒi/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: greeny.
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 energy
- energies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does energy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- 2
The capacity to do work.
- 3
A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h) CGS: erg (erg) Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
- 4
An intangible, modifiable force (usually characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit.
Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.
- 5
The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the
- 6
A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
- 7
An atmosphere, aura, or vibe.
big dick energy; divorced guy energy; main character energy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate energy?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of energy: NRG.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Energy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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.