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collinearity

noun

collinearity is spelled C-O-L-L-I-N-E-A-R-I-T-Y: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, collinearity means “The condition of being collinear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of collinearity is collinearities.

How many letters and syllables are in collinearity?

Letters12: C-O-L-L-I-N-E-A-R-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st 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 collinearity?

Collinearity appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).

Forms of collinearity

  • collinearities plural
  • colinearity

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

What does collinearity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being collinear.

  2. 2

    The extent to which something is collinear.

  3. 3

    The relationship between the linear sequence of codons in DNA and that of amino acids in the protein so coded

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

Collinearity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the condition of being collinear:

LanguageWords
Frenchcolinéarité
GermanKollinearität
Portuguesecolinearidade
Spanishcolinealidad

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 collinearity come from?

From collinear + -ity.

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

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