consistency
con·sis·ten·cy/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/noun
consistency is spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-E-N-C-Y, 4 syllables: con·sis·ten·cy. The wrong spelling people search most is consistancy: about 340 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Consistency is a noun meaning “Local coherence”. The plural of consistency is consistencies.
How many letters and syllables are in consistency?
| Letters | 11: C-O-N-S-I-S-T-E-N-C-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: con·sis·ten·cy |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, consistancy, about 340 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell consistency?
Consistency is spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-E-N-C-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for consistency in either form.
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 consistency?
Consistency appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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 consistency?
- /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/
- /ˈkən.sɪs.ˈʈen.siː/
Consistency has 4 syllables, split con·sis·ten·cy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-consistency.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of consistency
- consistencies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does consistency mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Local coherence.
- 2
Correspondence or compatibility.
- 3
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.
- 4
The degree of viscosity of something.
Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
- 5
Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
- 6
obsoleteFirmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate consistency?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of consistency: CAP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Consistency in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Beständigkeit, Regelmäßigkeit, Zuverlässigkeit, Verlässlichkeit , Konsistenz , Widerspruchsfreiheit |
| Portuguese | consistência |
| Spanish | consistencia |
| French | consistance |
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 consistency come from?
By surface analysis, consistent + -cy, consistence + -y or consist + -ency.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).