commonalities

noun

"commonalities" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“commonalities” is uncommon English (frequency #51,622 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,622
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of commonality

Corpus desk

Index EN-commonalities · commonalities · English

commonalities · rank #51,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,622
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH concisely

Nearest frequency peer: concisely (+2 rank slots)

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.

Long-tail ranks near “commonalities”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “commonalities” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for commonalities
PropertyValue
Headwordcommonalities
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Frequency rank#51,622
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “commonalities” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).commonalitiesfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “concisely” (#51,624), “Colm” (#51,619), “conditionally” (#51,625). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “commonalities” is #51,622. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

commonalities is uncommon English at frequency #51,622 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of commonality".

No misspelling variants are generated for commonalities in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is commonalities, spelled C-O-M-M-O-N-A-L-I-T-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural of commonality

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how commonalities appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The answers to these questions will necessarily be local, highly dependent on the nature of a given college or university, but the entire mathematical community should be able to identify commonalities among similar types of institutions.
  2. Commonalities between past pandemics and current events are also found in the understanding that the close quarters of public transport facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "commonalities"?
"commonalities" is spelled C-O-M-M-O-N-A-L-I-T-I-E-S.
What does "commonalities" mean?
As a noun, "commonalities" means: plural of commonality
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commonalities", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list