presidency

Other forms of presidency

plural

presidencies·

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 presidency

What does presidency mean?

presidency means "the tenure of a president". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in presidency?

presidency has 4 syllables: pres-i-den-cy. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛzədənsi/.

What is another word for presidency?

Close synonyms include presidential term, administration, presidentship. 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 presidency a common word?

presidency 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.