regie
/ɹeɪˈʒi/noun
regie is a noun meaning “A government monopoly, such as on tobacco, typically used to raise revenue (via taxes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-G-I-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of regie is regies.
What does regie mean?
noun
- 1
A government monopoly, such as on tobacco, typically used to raise revenue (via taxes).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce regie?
- /ɹeɪˈʒi/
Regie 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-regie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of regie
- regies plural
- régie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is regie?
Regie appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).