electricity
/ˌiːlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/noun
electricity is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is electricty: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Electricity is a noun meaning “Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material…”. The plural of electricity is electricities.
How many letters and syllables are in electricity?
| Letters | 11: E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, electricty, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell electricity?
Electricity is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-I-T-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 electricity?
Electricity appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 electricity?
- UK /ˌiːlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/
- UK /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/
- UK /ˌɛlɪkˈtɹɪsɪti/
Electricity 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: En-us-electricity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with electricity?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as electricity from its last stressed vowel (/ɪsɪti/, British pronunciation):
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 electricity
- electricities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does electricity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field.
For, reſtoring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man thro’ whom the fire paſſes ; that Electricity is neither increaſed nor diminiſhed.
- 2
The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena.
He took up the job of studying electricity in college.
- 3
A feeling of excitement; a thrill.
Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings.
- 4
Electrical power, as supplied by power stations or generators.
This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity.
- 5
Electrical energy, as supplied by power stations or generators.
Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity.
- 6
The supply of electricity, as a utility.
Electricity bosses set to make record profits.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate electricity?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of electricity: Elec..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Electricity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | électricité , courant |
| German | Elektrizität , Strom |
| Portuguese | eletricidade , luz , eletrização |
| Spanish | electricidad |
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 electricity come from?
From electric + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).