# complicity

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #27,778

## Definitions
1. The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
2. Complexity.

## Etymology
From French complicité, from Middle French, from Old French complice (“accomplice”), from Late Latin complic-, stem of complex (“partner, confederate”), from Latin complicō (“fold together”).

## Easily confused with
- **complicit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complicit-vs-complicity)
- **complexity** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complexity-vs-complicity)
- **complicate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complicate-vs-complicity)

## Common misspellings (16)
`ccomplicity`, `cmoplicity`, `comlpicity`, `commplicity`, `compilcity`, `complciity`, `compliccity`, `complicitty`, `complicityy`, `compliciyt`, `complictiy`, `compliicty`, `compllicity`, `compplicity`, `copmlicity`, `ocmplicity`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/complicity