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exergy

noun

exergy is spelled E-X-E-R-G-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, exergy means “Concentrated or organized energy, which can be exported and do work in the process” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of exergy is exergies.

How many letters and syllables are in exergy?

Letters6: E-X-E-R-G-Y
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th 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 exergy?

Exergy appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 exergy

  • exergies plural

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

What does exergy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Concentrated or organized energy, which can be exported and do work in the process.

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

Where does exergy come from?

The term "exergy" was coined in 1956 by Zoran Rant (1904–1972) from Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex, “out of, away from”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

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

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