secrecy

Other forms of secrecy

plural

secrecies·

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 secrecy

What does secrecy mean?

secrecy means "the trait of keeping things secret". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secrecy?

secrecy has 3 syllables: se-cre-cy. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsikɹəsi/.

What is another word for secrecy?

Close synonyms include secretiveness, silence, privacy, privateness, concealment. 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 secrecy a common word?

secrecy 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.