stringency

Questions about stringency

What does stringency mean?

stringency means "a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stringency?

stringency has 3 syllables: strin-gen-cy. The stress falls on "strin". In IPA it is /ˈstɹɪndʒənsi/.

What is another word for stringency?

Close synonyms include tightness, strictness. 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 stringency a common word?

stringency 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.