money
/ˈmʌn.i/
"money" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“money” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #210. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #210
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A generally accepted means of exchange.
Corpus desk
Index EN-money · money · English
money · rank #210 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #210
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH put
Nearest frequency peer: put (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “money”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- might
might
99,794 corpus weight
- please
please
99,793 corpus weight
- put
put
99,792 corpus weight
- money
money
99,791 corpus weight
- free
free
99,790 corpus weight
- second
second
99,789 corpus weight
What this shows “money” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | money |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmʌn.i/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “money”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around money (IPA /ˈmʌn.i/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #210 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for money, with forms such as "mmoney", "mnoey", and "moeny". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "more", "move", "monk", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Latin Monēta Latin monēta Old French moneie Old French monoie Anglo-Norman muneiebor. Middle English moneye English money From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a pla… The correct English form is money, spelled M-O-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A generally accepted means of exchange.
- 2A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- 3Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- 4The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- 5Wealth.
- 6A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
- 7An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- 8A person who funds an operation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how money appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I cannot take money that I did not work for.
Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Monēta Latin monēta Old French moneie Old French monoie Anglo-Norman muneiebor. Middle English moneye English money 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 Azeri or Turkmen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoney
- mnoey
- moeny
- moneyy
- monney
- monye
- omney
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of money - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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