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community

com·mun·i·ty/k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/noun

community is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y, 4 syllables: com·mun·i·ty. The wrong spelling people search most is comunity: about 510 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 52 of all searches for the word. Community is a noun meaning “A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition”. The plural of community is communities.

How many letters and syllables are in community?

Letters9: C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y
Syllables4: com·mun·i·ty
In writing219 times per million words; the 460th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, comunity, about 510 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); 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 community?

Community is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for community in either form.

communitythe right spelling26,170 searches a month
comunitya missing m510 searches a month
communtya missing i60 searches a month
commmunityan extra m40 searches a month

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 community?

Community appears 219 times per million words in written English, the 460th 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 community?

  • UK /kəˈmjuːnɪ.ti/
  • British /kəˈmjʉwnɪtɪj/
  • US /k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/

Community has 4 syllables, split com·mun·i·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-community.ogg, En-ca-community.ogg, En-au-community.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with community?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as community from its last stressed vowel (/unəti/):

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 community

  • communities plural
  • communitie

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

What does community mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.

  2. 2

    A residential or religious collective; a commune.

  3. 3

    A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

  4. 4

    A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.

  5. 5

    The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.

  6. 6

    A feeling of togetherness or connectedness, common identity or of possessing a similar outlook, perspective and purpose with some group of people.

    Volunteering gave me a sense of community.

  7. 7

    obsoleteCommon enjoyment or possession; participation.

    a community of goods

  8. 8

    obsoleteCommon character; likeness.

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

How do you abbreviate community?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of community: Cmty., com.

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

Community in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcommunauté (group sharing a common understanding)
GermanGemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, Community (group sharing a common understanding), Gemeinde (residential or religious collective)
Portuguesecomunidade (group sharing a common understanding)
Spanishcomunidad (group sharing a common understanding), comuna (residential or religious collective), comunitat (condition of having certain attitudes and…)

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 community come from?

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūn(is) (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commun(e) + -ity. Displaced native Old English ġemǣnsċipe. Doublet of communitas.

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

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