calvities
/kælˈvɪʃiiːz/
"calvities" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“calvities” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baldness, the condition of being bald.
Corpus desk
Index EN-calvities · calvities · English
calvities · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calvities |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kælˈvɪʃiiːz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “calvities” in English
Rare enough to double-check
calvities is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /kælˈvɪʃiiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Baldness, the condition of being bald.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calvities, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin calvitiēs (“baldness”). The correct English form is calvities, spelled C-A-L-V-I-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Baldness, the condition of being bald.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin calvitiēs (“baldness”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.