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comfortability

com·fort·a·bi·li·ty/ˌkʌmfɚtəˈbɪlɪti/noun

comfortability is spelled C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: 14 letters and 6 syllables (com·fort·a·bi·li·ty). It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, comfortability means “Synonym of comfort (“contentment, ease”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of comfortability is comfortabilities.

How many letters and syllables are in comfortability?

Letters14: C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y
Syllables6: com·fort·a·bi·li·ty
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 127,184th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is comfortability?

Comfortability appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 comfortability?

  • UK /ˌkʌmfətəˈbɪlɪti/
  • US /ˌkʌmfɚtəˈbɪlɪti/
  • US [ˌkəmfɚɾəˈbɪləɾi]

Comfortability has 6 syllables, split com·fort·a·bi·li·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-comfortability.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with comfortability?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as comfortability from its last stressed vowel (/ɪlɪti/):

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 comfortability

  • comfortabilities plural

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

What does comfortability mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of comfort (“contentment, ease”).

  2. 2

    Synonym of comfortableness (“the quality or state of being comfortable or relaxed”).

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

Comfortability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense synonym of comfortableness – see also comfortableness:

LanguageWords
Frenchconfortabilité
GermanBehaglichkeit
Portugueseconfortabilidade
Spanishconfortabilidad

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 comfortability come from?

From comfort + -ability (suffix forming nouns from verbs, denoting an ability, inclination, or suitability for a specified function or condition), or comfortable + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives, referring to the property, quality, or state of conforming to [the meaning of the adjective]).

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

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