contemporaneity

noun

"contemporaneity" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“contemporaneity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.

Corpus desk

Index EN-contemporaneity · contemporaneity · English

contemporaneity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for contemporaneity
PropertyValue
Headwordcontemporaneity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “contemporaneity” in English

contemporaneityranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

contemporaneity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for contemporaneity in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: By surface analysis, contempor(aneous) + -aneity. The correct English form is contemporaneity, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.

Etymology

By surface analysis, contempor(aneous) + -aneity.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contemporaneity"?
"contemporaneity" is spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-I-T-Y.
What does "contemporaneity" mean?
As a noun, "contemporaneity" means: The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
What is the origin of the word "contemporaneity"?
By surface analysis, contempor(aneous) + -aneity. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list