currency

Other forms of currency

plural

currencies·

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 currency

What does currency mean?

currency means "the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in currency?

currency has 3 syllables: cur-ren-cy. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkɝənsi/.

What is another word for currency?

Close synonyms include currentness, up-to-dateness. 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 currency a common word?

currency is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.