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-ancy

/ənsi/

-ancy suffix: added to verbs and adjectives to form nouns conveying a condition or quality associated with the verb.

Suffix

-ancy

  1. Added to verbs and adjectives to form nouns conveying a condition or quality associated with the verb.
    • account + -ancy → accountancy
    • ascend + -ancy → ascendancy

Origin of -ancy

From Latin -antia, -entia, with influence from French -ance, French -ancie, Spanish -ancia, etc.

Questions about -ancy

What does -ancy mean?
-ancy means added to verbs and adjectives to form nouns conveying a condition or quality associated with the verb.
What part of speech is -ancy?
-ancy is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -ancy?
-ancy is pronounced /ənsi/.

Words near -ancy in the dictionary

  1. -amundo
  2. -an
  3. -ana
  4. -ance
  5. -ances
  6. -ancy
  7. -and
  8. -ander
  9. -andrian
  10. -androus
  11. -andry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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