elasticity
/ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/noun
elasticity is spelled E-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y: 10 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, elasticity means “The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of elasticity is elasticities.
How many letters and syllables are in elasticity?
| Letters | 10: E-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is elasticity?
Elasticity appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 elasticity?
- UK /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
- US /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
- US [ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ɾi]
Elasticity has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-PRB-elasticity.wav, En-us-elasticity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with elasticity?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as elasticity from its last stressed vowel (/ɪsɪti/):
- authenticity
- specificity
- plasticity
- eccentricity
- centricity
- chromaticity
- inauthenticity
- atomicity
- chronicity
- facticity
- benedicite
- rhoticity
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of elasticity
- elasticities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does elasticity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- 2
The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
If the sales of an item drop by 5% when the price increases by 10%, its price elasticity is −0.5.
- 3
A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- 4
A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- 5
The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- 6
The quality of being elastic.
- 7
Adaptability.
Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Elasticity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense physics: property by which a material can regain its original dimensions:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | élasticité |
| German | Elastizität |
| Portuguese | elasticidade |
| Spanish | elasticidad |
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 elasticity come from?
From elastic + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).