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finity

noun

finity is spelled F-I-N-I-T-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, finity means “The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of finity is finities.

How many letters and syllables are in finity?

Letters6: F-I-N-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is finity?

Finity appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 finity

  • finities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does finity mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    rareThe state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.

  2. 2

    rareSomething which is limited in number or scope.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Finity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or characteristic of being limited:

LanguageWords
Frenchfinitude
GermanEndlichkeit
Portuguesefinidade
Spanishfinidad, finitud

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 finity come from?

From French finité, from Old French finité, from fini (past participle of finir (“to bound”)) + -ité.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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