mintage

Other forms of mintage

plural

mintages·

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 mintage

What does mintage mean?

mintage means "coins collectively". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mintage?

mintage has 2 syllables: min-tage. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /ˈmɪntədʒ/.

What is another word for mintage?

Close synonyms include coinage, specie, metal money. 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 mintage a common word?

mintage 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.