urgency

Other forms of urgency

plural

urgencies·

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 urgency

What does urgency mean?

urgency means "the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in urgency?

urgency has 3 syllables: ur-gen-cy. The stress falls on "ur". In IPA it is /ˈɝdʒənsi/.

What is another word for urgency?

Close synonyms include importunity, urging. 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 urgency a common word?

urgency 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.