brevity

/ˈbɹɛvəti/noun

brevity is spelled B-R-E-V-I-T-Y: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, brevity means “The quality of being brief in duration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brevity is brevities.

How many letters and syllables are in brevity?

Letters	7: B-R-E-V-I-T-Y
Syllables	3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is brevity?

Brevity appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th most frequent word form in the list.

brevity0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce brevity?

UK /ˈbɹɛvɪti/
UK /ˈbɹɛvəti/
US /ˈbɹɛvəti/

Brevity has 3 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-brevity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of brevity

brevities plural

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

What does brevity mean?

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

noun

1
The quality of being brief in duration.
2
Succinctness; conciseness.
3
rareA short piece of writing.

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

Brevity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	concision, brièveté (the quality of being brief in duration), laconisme (succinctness; conciseness)
German	Kürze (the quality of being brief in duration), Bündigkeit, Knappheit (succinctness; conciseness)
Portuguese	brevidade (the quality of being brief in duration)
Spanish	brevedad (the quality of being brief in duration), concisión (succinctness; conciseness)

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.