corporeity

/kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/

//kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i// noun

"corporeity" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.

Corpus desk

Index EN-corporeity · corporeity · English

corporeity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for corporeity
PropertyValue
Headwordcorporeity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “corporeity” in English

corporeityranks 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

corporeity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for corporeity, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”). The correct English form is corporeity, spelled C-O-R-P-O-R-E-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
  2. 2
    A body, a physical substance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how corporeity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.
  2. Determining what was unique about living beings, he postulated the ‘corporeity’ of a soul […], common to beast and man alike.

Etymology

From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).

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 "corporeity"?
"corporeity" is spelled C-O-R-P-O-R-E-I-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/.
What does "corporeity" mean?
As a noun, "corporeity" means: The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
How do you pronounce "corporeity"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corporeity" is /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "corporeity"?
From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”). 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