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moneybags

noun

moneybags is a noun meaning “A wealthy person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-N-E-Y-B-A-G-S, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does moneybags mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalA wealthy person.

  2. 2

    plural of moneybag (a form of moneybag)

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

How do you pronounce moneybags?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-moneybags.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is moneybags?

Moneybags appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th 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).

Moneybags in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense wealthy person:

LanguageWords
Frenchrichard, richou
GermanGeldsack
Portugueserico, ricaço, burguês
Spanishricachón, forrado

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.