competitivity
"competitivity" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“competitivity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - competitiveness
Corpus desk
Index EN-competitivity · competitivity · English
competitivity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | competitivity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “competitivity” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
competitivity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "competitiveness".
No misspelling variants are generated for competitivity in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From competitive + -ity. The correct English form is competitivity, spelled C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-V-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1competitiveness
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how competitivity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1962, "Britain's Export Trade with Canada. Canadian Studies in Economics: No. 12" (Review), Angus Maddison, The Economic Journal, Vol. 72, No. 286. (Jun., 1962), pp. 395, URL: JSTOR It would throw further light on the inter-relation of competitivity and growth if we had a similar structural analysis of British performance in a more slowly performing market.
2000, Sylvain Gandon and Yannis Michalakis, "Evolution of Parasite Virulence against Qualitative or Quantitative Host Resistance," Proceedings: Biological Sciences, page 986, Vol. 267, No. 1447. (May 22, 2000), pp. 985-990, URL: JSTOR. Parasites compete within hosts and their level of competitivity is v.
Etymology
From competitive + -ity.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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