plenty
/ˈplɛnti/noun, pronoun, adverb, determiner
plenty is spelled P-L-E-N-T-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 52 times per million words in written English, the 1,941st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plenty means “A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of plenty is plenties.
How many letters and syllables are in plenty?
| Letters | 6: P-L-E-N-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 52 times per million words; the 1,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is plenty?
Plenty appears 52 times per million words in written English, the 1,941st 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 plenty?
- UK /ˈplɛnti/
- US /ˈplɛnti/
- US [ˈplɛɾ̃i]
Plenty has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-plenty.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with plenty?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as plenty (/ɛnti/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pentyl.
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 plenty
- plenties plural
- more plenty comparative
- most plenty superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does plenty mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
pronoun
- 1
More than enough.
Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.
adverb
- 1
CanadaUSMore than sufficiently.
This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- 2
CanadaUScolloquialUsed as an intensifier, very.
She was plenty mad at him.
determiner
- 1
CanadaUScolloquialnonstandardmuch, enough
There'll be plenty time later for that
- 2
CanadaUScolloquialnonstandardmany
Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
adjective
- 1
CanadaUScolloquialnonstandardobsoletePlentiful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Plenty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 plenty come from?
From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).