accessibility
/əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/noun
accessibility is spelled A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is accessability: about 590 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Accessibility is a noun meaning “The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness”. The plural of accessibility is accessibilities.
How many letters and syllables are in accessibility?
| Letters | 13: A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, accessability, about 590 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 accessibility?
Accessibility is spelled A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for accessibility 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 accessibility?
Accessibility appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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 accessibility?
- UK /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
- US /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
- US [əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
Accessibility has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-accessibility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with accessibility?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accessibility from its last stressed vowel (/ɪləti/):
- responsibility
- possibility
- capability
- probability
- accountability
- fertility
- sustainability
- eligibility
- instability
- vulnerability
- compatibility
- volatility
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 accessibility
- accessibilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accessibility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
- 2
Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate accessibility?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of accessibility: ASP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accessibility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accessibilité |
| German | Zugänglichkeit, Barrierefreiheit, Erreichbarkeit |
| Portuguese | acessibilidade |
| Spanish | accesibilidad |
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 accessibility come from?
From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).