monocracy

Other forms of monocracy

plural

monocracies·

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 monocracy

What does monocracy mean?

monocracy means "a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)".

How many syllables are in monocracy?

monocracy has 4 syllables and divides as mo-no-cra-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 monocracy?

Close synonyms include dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism. 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 monocracy a common word?

monocracy 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.