plutocracy
/pluːˈtɒkɹəsi/
"plutocracy" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plutocracy” is uncommon English (frequency #71,797 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,797
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Government by the wealthy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plutocracy · plutocracy · English
plutocracy · rank #71,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,797
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH pluralist
Nearest frequency peer: pluralist (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “plutocracy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pinder
pinder
28,209 corpus weight
- pluralist
pluralist
28,205 corpus weight
- plutocracy
plutocracy
28,204 corpus weight
- pneumococcal
pneumococcal
28,203 corpus weight
- podcaster
podcaster
28,202 corpus weight
- pola
pola
28,201 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “plutocracy” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plutocracy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pluːˈtɒkɹəsi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plutocracy” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
plutocracy is uncommon English at frequency #71,797 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pluːˈtɒkɹəsi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
plutocracy has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek πλουτοκρατία (ploutokratía, “rule of the wealthy”), from πλουτοκρατέω (ploutokratéō, “I rule through wealth”), from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “wealth”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “I rule”) (from κράτος (krátos, “power”, “might”)). The correct English form is plutocracy, spelled P-L-U-T-O-C-R-A-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Government by the wealthy.
- 2A controlling class of the wealthy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plutocracy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plutocracy, which is virtually supreme to-day, is to be no less condemned ; for it is not only not just, bit is nearly as detrimental to the race at large as absolute socialism would be, if adopted […]
Modernity is not democracy; machinery is not democracy; the surrender of everything to trade and commerce is not democracy. Capitalism is not democracy; and is admittedly, by trend and savour, rather against democracy. Plutocracy by definition is not democracy. But all these modern things forced themselves into the world at about the time, or shortly afte…
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πλουτοκρατία (ploutokratía, “rule of the wealthy”), from πλουτοκρατέω (ploutokratéō, “I rule through wealth”), from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “wealth”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “I rule”) (from κράτος (krátos, “power”, “might”)).
Synonyms
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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