fatuity
/fəˈtjuːəti/
"fatuity" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fatuity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fatuity · fatuity · English
fatuity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatuity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fəˈtjuːəti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fatuity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fatuity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /fəˈtjuːəti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fatuity, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French fatuité. The correct English form is fatuity, spelled F-A-T-U-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
- 2Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fatuity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like Joel Miller’s friend, the Senior Wrangler, who bowed to the audience from his box at the play, because he and the king happened to enter the theatre at the same time, only with a fatuity by no means so agreeable to himself, poor Arthur Pendennis felt perfectly convinced that all England would remark the absence of his name from the examination-lists,…
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fatuité.
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.