pecuniary
/pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/
"pecuniary" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pecuniary” is uncommon English (frequency #54,386 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,386
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pecuniary · pecuniary · English
pecuniary · rank #54,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,386
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH PDX
Nearest frequency peer: PDX (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “pecuniary”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- patella
patella
45,622 corpus weight
- pattie
pattie
45,620 corpus weight
- paymaster
paymaster
45,619 corpus weight
- PDX
PDX
45,616 corpus weight
- pecuniary
pecuniary
45,615 corpus weight
- peeler
peeler
45,613 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pecuniary” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pecuniary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pecuniary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pecuniary is uncommon English at frequency #54,386 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.".
pecuniary doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee. The correct English form is pecuniary, spelled P-E-C-U-N-I-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pecuniary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
Etymology
From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.
This word in other languages
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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