money
mon·ey/ˈmʌn.i/noun, adjective
money is spelled M-O-N-E-Y, 2 syllables: mon·ey. The wrong spelling people search most is moeny: about 230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 172 of all searches for the word. Money is a noun meaning “A generally accepted means of exchange”. The plural of money is monies or moneys.
How many letters and syllables are in money?
| Letters | 5: M-O-N-E-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mon·ey |
| In writing | 437 times per million words; the 213th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, moeny, about 230 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); 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 money?
Money is spelled M-O-N-E-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 173 of the searches for money 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 money?
Money appears 437 times per million words in written English, the 213th 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 money?
- UK /ˈmʌn.i/
- US /ˈmʌn.i/
- US [ˈmɐni]
Money has 2 syllables, split mon·ey in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-money.ogg, En-us-money.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with money
Also written: mony.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with money?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as money from its last stressed vowel (/ʌni/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: moyen, myeon.
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 money
- monies plural
- moneys plural
- munney
- munny
- more money comparative
- most money superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does money mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A generally accepted means of exchange.
I cannot take money that I did not work for.
- 2
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
money supply; money market
- 3
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques, credit cards, or credit more generally.
You best have some money, cause there ain't no checks or credit here.
- 4
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- 5
Wealth.
He was born with money.
- 6
A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
He was born into money.
- 7
An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- 8
A person who funds an operation.
adjective
- 1
USslangCool; excellent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Money in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | argent , liquide |
| German | Geld , Bargeld , Vermögen, Reichtum |
| Portuguese | dinheiro, grana, dindim , riqueza |
| Spanish | dinero, cobres, lana, pasta, pisto, plata |
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 money come from?
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azerbaijani or Turkmen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).