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cityscape

noun

cityscape is spelled C-I-T-Y-S-C-A-P-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cityscape means “The view of the buildings of a city, usually referring to a pictured landscape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cityscape is cityscapes.

How many letters and syllables are in cityscape?

Letters9: C-I-T-Y-S-C-A-P-E
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is cityscape?

Cityscape appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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 cityscape?

  • General-American

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

Forms of cityscape

  • cityscapes plural

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

What does cityscape mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The view of the buildings of a city, usually referring to a pictured landscape.

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

Cityscape in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense view of a city:

LanguageWords
GermanStadtlandschaft, Stadtansicht

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 cityscape come from?

From city + -scape.

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

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