independency

Questions about independency

What does independency mean?

independency means "freedom from control or influence of another or others".

How many syllables are in independency?

independency has 5 syllables and divides as in-de-pen-den-cy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for independency?

Close synonyms include independence. 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 independency a common word?

independency 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.