efficiency

Other forms of efficiency

plural

efficiencies·

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 efficiency

What does efficiency mean?

efficiency means "the ratio of the output to the input of any system". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in efficiency?

efficiency has 4 syllables: ef-fic-ien-cy. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /ɪˈfɪʃənsi/.

What is the opposite of efficiency?

The recorded antonyms are inefficiency.

Is efficiency a common word?

efficiency 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.

What rhymes with efficiency?

5 words rhyme with efficiency. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.