absorptivity
/æbˌsɔɹpˈtɪvə.ti/noun
absorptivity is spelled A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-V-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is absorbtivity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Absorptivity is a noun meaning “The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness”. The plural of absorptivity is absorptivities.
How many letters and syllables are in absorptivity?
| Letters | 12: A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-V-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, absorbtivity, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell absorptivity?
Absorptivity is spelled A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-V-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for absorptivity in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is absorptivity?
Absorptivity appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce absorptivity?
- US /æbˌsɔɹpˈtɪvə.ti/
- US /əbˌsɔɹpˈtɪvə.ti/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-absorptivity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with absorptivity?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as absorptivity from its last stressed vowel (/ɪvəti/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of absorptivity
- absorptivities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does absorptivity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
- 2
The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
- 3
The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Absorptivity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the quality of being absorptive:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | absorptivité |
| Portuguese | absortividade |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does absorptivity come from?
From absorptive + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).