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asynchrony

noun

asynchrony is a noun meaning “The state of being asynchronous, or out of synchronization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-S-Y-N-C-H-R-O-N-Y, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of asynchrony is asynchronies.

What does asynchrony mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being asynchronous, or out of synchronization

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

Forms of asynchrony

  • asynchronies plural

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

How common is asynchrony?

Asynchrony appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

Asynchrony in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense asynchrony:

LanguageWords
Frenchasynchronisme
GermanAsynchronie
Portugueseassincronia, assincronismo
Spanishasincronismo

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.