barratry

Other forms of barratry

plural

barratries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barratry

What does barratry mean?

barratry means "traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barratry?

barratry has 3 syllables: bar-ra-try. The stress falls on "bar".

What is another word for barratry?

Close synonyms include simony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barratry a common word?

barratry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.