wealthy
/ˈwɛl.θi/adjective, noun
wealthy is spelled W-E-A-L-T-H-Y: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wealthy means “Possessing financial wealth; rich” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in wealthy?
| Letters | 7: W-E-A-L-T-H-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 wealthy?
Wealthy appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th 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 wealthy?
- US /ˈwɛl.θi/
- /ˈʋɛːl.d̪iː/
- /ˈʋɛːl.t̪hiː/
Wealthy 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-wealthy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wealthy?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wealthy from its last stressed vowel (/ɛlθi/):
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 wealthy
- wealthier comparative
- more wealthy comparative
- wealthiest superlative
- most wealthy superlative
- wealthies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wealthy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
- 2
Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
noun
- 1
Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.
- 2
A rich person.
F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
noun
- 1
A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wealthy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | riche, nanti |
| German | wohlhabend, reich |
| Portuguese | rico , farto |
| Spanish | adinerado, rico, próspero, acomodado, ficho, fichudo |
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 wealthy come from?
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).