Pricey

Definition: Pricey

Pricey

Adjective

1. Having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant".

Synonyms: Pricey

Synonyms: costly (adj), dear(p) (adj), high-priced (adj), pricy (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pricey

English words defined with "pricey": costly ♦ dear ♦ high-priced ♦ pricy. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Czech Rep	Office space in the Prague 1 center, is pricey, with offices renting for $17 to $20 per square meter per year. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Pricey" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pricey" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	75	38,535

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pricey": pricey-to-license.
	Ending with "pricey": midrange-but-still-pricey.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "pricey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		duur (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Albanian		i shtrenjtë (costly, expensive, high, pricy), i kushtueshëm (costly, pricy, sumptuous). (various references)

Bavarian		deia (costly, dear, expensive). (various references)

Bulgarian		скъп (costly, dear, expensive, inestimable, precious, sparing, swanky, sweetheart, swish, well-beloved). (various references)

Danish		værdifuld (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Dutch		prĳzig (valuable), prýzig (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable), kostbaar (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable), duur (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Esperanto		multekosta (costly, dear, expensive), altpreza. (various references)

French		coûteux (priced), cher (at a premium, precious, priced). (various references)

Frisian		djoer (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

German		teuer (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, expensively, extravagant, lovely, rich, valuable). (various references)

Greek		ακριβόσ (costly, dear, expensive, precious). (various references)

Hungarian		drága (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, lovely, precious, sumptuous, valuable). (various references)

Icelandic		dýr (animal, costly, dear, expensive). (various references)

Irish		daor (costly, dear, expensive, lovely, slave, valuable). (various references)

Italian		costoso (beloved, costly, dear, exclusive, expensive, high, lovely, valuable), caro (beloved, charming, costly, darling, dear, expensive, high, lovely, nice, valuable). (various references)

Malay		mahal (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Manx		priosoil (valuable). (various references)

Norwegian		kostbar (beloved, costly, dear, expencive, expensive, lovely, valuable), dyr (animal, beast, beloved, costly, dear, expencive, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Papiamen		kostoso (costly, dear, expensive). (various references)

Pig Latin		iceypray

Polish		kosztowny (costly, dear, expensive), drogi (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Portuguese		salgado (brackish, briny, corned, piquant, saline, salt, salted, salt-marsh, salty), caro (costly, dear, expensive, lovely, rich, valuable). (various references)

Romanian		scump (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, high, lovely, miserly, own, precious, valuable). (various references)

Russian		дорогой (big-ticket, costly, darling, dear, deary, deluxe, expensive, lovely, precious, valuable). (various references)

Spanish		caro (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Swahili		ghali (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Swedish		dyrbar (beloved, costly, costy, dear, expensive, lovely, precious, valuable), dyr (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Turkish		pahalı (costly, dear, expensive, high priced, precious, pricy, rich, sumptuous). (various references)

Yucatec		ko'oh (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Zulu		-bizayo (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, lovely, valuable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Pricey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: picay, Pichey, prica, pricei, pricem, Pridey, priken, Princey, prissey, prively, privey, tricey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pricey" (pronounced prī"sē)
3	-ī" s ē	Dicey, icy, spicey, spicy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: crepy, cripe, price, pricy, pyric.
	-2 letters: cire, epic, peri, pice, pier, prey, pyic, pyre, rice, ripe, yipe.
	-3 letters: cep, cry, ice, icy, ire, pec, per, pic, pie, pry, pye, rec, rei, rep, rip, rye, yep, yip.
	-4 letters: er, pe, pi, re, ye.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-p-r-y"
	+1 letter: pyretic, pyrexic, spicery.
	+2 letters: apyretic, creepily, princely, repacify.
	+3 letters: coryphaei, cyphering, eurytopic, hyperacid, hyperemic, hyperopic, hypocrite, micropyle, panegyric, pecuniary, pericycle, polymeric, preachify, preachily, precisely, precocity, predacity, pruriency, pyrogenic, pyroxenic, recopying, supercity.
	+4 letters: copywriter, corporeity, cypripedia, decrepitly, decrypting, decryption, encrypting, encryption, hermatypic, hyperbaric, hyperbolic, hypergolic, hypermanic, hyperpneic, hypersonic, hypertonic, hypocrites, hypodermic, micropyles, panegyrics, peculiarly, pericycles, pericyclic, periphytic, pernickety, pertinency, piercingly, plyometric, precertify, preciosity, preciously, premycotic, presbyopic, presidency, prespecify, pyrometric, sphericity, syncarpies, typescript, xerophytic.
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