entity
en·ti·ty/ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi]noun
entity is spelled E-N-T-I-T-Y, 3 syllables: en·ti·ty. The wrong spelling people search most is entitity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Entity is a noun meaning “That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no…”. The plural of entity is entities.
How many letters and syllables are in entity?
| Letters | 6: E-N-T-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: en·ti·ty |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, entitity, 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 entity?
Entity is spelled E-N-T-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 356 of the searches for entity 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 entity?
Entity appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th 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 entity?
- US /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi]
- UK /ˈɛn.tɪt.i/
Entity has 3 syllables, split en·ti·ty in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-entity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of entity
- entities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does entity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- 2
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- 3
Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
- 4
The state or quality of being or existence.
The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
- 5
A spirit, ghost, or the like.
- 6
An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Entity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that which exists as an individual unit:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entité |
| German | Wesen, Einheit, Gebilde, Entität, Instanz, Rechtspersönlichkeit |
| Portuguese | entidade |
| Spanish | entidad |
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 entity come from?
From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).