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exy

adjective

exy is an adjective meaning “Expensive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-X-Y, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does exy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    AustraliacolloquialslangExpensive.

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

How do you pronounce exy?

  • Australia

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

Forms of exy

  • more exy comparative
  • most exy superlative
  • exxy

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

How common is exy?

Exy appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).

Where does exy come from?

Shortened from expensive + -y.

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