anonymity
/ænəˈnɪmɪti/noun
anonymity is spelled A-N-O-N-Y-M-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is anonimity: about 450 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Anonymity is a noun meaning “The quality or state of being anonymous (nameless or unidentified)”. The plural of anonymity is anonymities.
How many letters and syllables are in anonymity?
| Letters | 9: A-N-O-N-Y-M-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, anonimity, about 450 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 anonymity?
Anonymity is spelled A-N-O-N-Y-M-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for anonymity 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 anonymity?
Anonymity appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 anonymity?
- US /ænəˈnɪmɪti/
Anonymity has 5 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: En-us-anonymity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with anonymity?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as anonymity from its last stressed vowel (/ɪmɪti/):
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 anonymity
- anonymities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anonymity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality or state of being anonymous (nameless or unidentified).
She's garbed her philanthropic activities in anonymity.
- 2
That which is anonymous.
- 3
The quality or state of being generally unknown, unrecognized, or uncelebrated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anonymity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anonymat |
| German | Anonymität , Anonyme |
| Portuguese | anonimato , anónimo |
| Spanish | anonimato |
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 anonymity come from?
From Latin anonymus or its etymon Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “anonymous”) + -ity. Compare French anonymité.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).