fertility
/fɝˈtɪləti/noun
fertility is spelled F-E-R-T-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is fertily: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 227 of all searches for the word. Fertility is a noun meaning “The condition, or the degree, of being fertile”. The plural of fertility is fertilities.
How many letters and syllables are in fertility?
| Letters | 9: F-E-R-T-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fertily, about 20 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 fertility?
Fertility is spelled F-E-R-T-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 225 of the searches for fertility 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 fertility?
Fertility appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 fertility?
- UK /fə(ɹ)ˈtɪlɪti/
- US /fɝˈtɪləti/
Fertility has 4 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)-Vealhurl-fertility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fertility?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fertility from its last stressed vowel (/ɪləti/):
- responsibility
- possibility
- capability
- probability
- accountability
- sustainability
- eligibility
- instability
- vulnerability
- compatibility
- accessibility
- volatility
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 fertility
- fertilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fertility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
- 2
The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- 3
The average number of births per woman within a population.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fertility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the condition, or the degree of being fertile:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fertilité |
| German | Fruchtbarkeit |
| Portuguese | fertilidade |
| Spanish | fertilidad |
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 fertility come from?
From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitās, equivalent to fertile + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).