clarity
/ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/noun
clarity is spelled C-L-A-R-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is clairty: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 75 of all searches for the word. Clarity is a noun meaning “The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity”. The plural of clarity is clarities.
How many letters and syllables are in clarity?
| Letters | 7: C-L-A-R-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, clairty, about 210 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 clarity?
Clarity is spelled C-L-A-R-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 75 of the searches for clarity 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 clarity?
Clarity appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 clarity?
- UK /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
- UK /ˈklæɹ.ə.ti/
- US /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
Clarity 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-clarity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with clarity?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as clarity from its last stressed vowel (/æɹɪti/):
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 clarity
- clarities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does clarity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
She dreamed with great clarity.
- 2
The ability to be easily understood.
Lack of clarity on the part of the teacher will cause confusion among the students.
- 3
The ability to think clearly and rationally.
- 4
The ability to be easily heard.
The singer was praised for the amazing clarity in her voice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Clarity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state or measure of being clear:
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 clarity come from?
From Middle English claritee, from Old French clarté, from Latin clāritās, from clārus (“clear”); equivalent to clear + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).