# money

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmʌn.i/ · frequency rank #210

## Definitions
1. A generally accepted means of exchange.
2. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
3. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
4. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
5. Wealth.
6. A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
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.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **more** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-more)
- **move** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-move)
- **monk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-monk)
- **mont** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-mont)
- **Mons** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-mons)
- **mong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-mong)
- **mote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-mote)
- **month** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-month)
- **moved** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-moved)
- **moves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-moves)
- **Moses** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-moses)
- **monks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-monks)
- **moody** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-moody)
- **monte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-monte)
- **motel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-motel)
- **Monty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-monty)
- **mover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-mover)
- **Morty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-morty)
- **mower** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-mower)
- **moray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/money-vs-moray)

## Common misspellings (7)
`mmoney`, `mnoey`, `moeny`, `moneyy`, `monney`, `monye`, `omney`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/money