amenity

a·me·ni·ty/əˈmɛnəti/noun

amenity is spelled A-M-E-N-I-T-Y: 7 letters and 4 syllables (a·me·ni·ty). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, amenity means “Pleasantness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in amenity?

Letters	7: A-M-E-N-I-T-Y
Syllables	4: a·me·ni·ty
In writing	about once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Same letters	anytime

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is amenity?

Amenity appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form in the list.

amenity0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce amenity?

UK /əˈmiːnəti/
US /əˈmɛnəti/

Amenity has 4 syllables, split a·me·ni·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-amenity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with amenity?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as amenity (/ɛnəti/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: anytime.

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).

What does amenity mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
Pleasantness.
We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
2
Convenience.
3
A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, among others.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Amenity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	aménité, agrément (pleasantness), commodité (something that makes life easier or more…), équipement (unit of community infrastructure)
German	Annehmlichkeit, Anmut (pleasantness), Einrichtung, öffentliche Einrichtung, Anlage (unit of community infrastructure)
Portuguese	amenidade (pleasantness), regalo, comodidade (something that makes life easier or more…), infraestrutura (unit of community infrastructure)
Spanish	comodidad, amenidad (pleasantness)

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 amenity come from?

Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.