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commonalty

UK /ˈkɒmənəlti/noun

commonalty is spelled C-O-M-M-O-N-A-L-T-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, commonalty means “The common people; the commonality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of commonalty is commonalties.

How many letters and syllables are in commonalty?

Letters10: C-O-M-M-O-N-A-L-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th 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 commonalty?

Commonalty appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 commonalty?

  • UK /ˈkɒmənəlti/

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

Forms of commonalty

  • commonalties plural

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

What does commonalty mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The common people; the commonality.

  2. 2

    A group of things having similar characteristics.

  3. 3

    A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.

  4. 4

    The state or quality of having things in common.

  5. 5

    A shared feature.

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

Where does commonalty come from?

From Middle English comunalte, communalte, from Old French comunalté, comunauté (modern communauté), probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās. Some senses are influenced by commonality.

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

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