vacancy

1. 1.

   being unoccupied

   Broaderemptiness
2. 2.

   an empty area or space

   “the huge desert voids”

   “the emptiness of outer space”

   “without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum”

   Synonymsvoidemptinessvacuum

   Broaderspace

Other forms of vacancy

plural

vacancies·

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 vacancy

What does vacancy mean?

vacancy means "being unoccupied". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vacancy?

vacancy has 3 syllables: va-can-cy. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ˈveɪkənsi/.

What is another word for vacancy?

Close synonyms include void, emptiness, vacuum. 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 vacancy a common word?

vacancy 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.