ellipticity
noun
ellipticity is spelled E-L-L-I-P-T-I-C-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is elipticity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ellipticity is a noun meaning “The condition of being elliptical (flattened from perfect circular or spherical form)”. The plural of ellipticity is ellipticities.
How many letters and syllables are in ellipticity?
| Letters | 11: E-L-L-I-P-T-I-C-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, elipticity, about 10 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 ellipticity?
Ellipticity is spelled E-L-L-I-P-T-I-C-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for ellipticity 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 ellipticity?
Ellipticity appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).
Forms of ellipticity
- ellipticities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ellipticity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The condition of being elliptical (flattened from perfect circular or spherical form)
- 2
A measure of this flattening that is a function of the ellipse's equatorial and polar radii
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ellipticity come from?
From elliptic + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).