flexibility
/ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/noun
flexibility is spelled F-L-E-X-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is flexability: about 200 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Flexibility is a noun meaning “The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically”. The plural of flexibility is flexibilities.
How many letters and syllables are in flexibility?
| Letters | 11: F-L-E-X-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, flexability, about 200 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 flexibility?
Flexibility is spelled F-L-E-X-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for flexibility 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 flexibility?
Flexibility appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 flexibility?
- US /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
Flexibility has 5 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: En-us-flexibility.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with flexibility?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as flexibility from its last stressed vowel (/ɪlɪti/):
- availability
- mobility
- visibility
- hostility
- profitability
- nobility
- viability
- versatility
- solubility
- permeability
- mutability
- servility
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 flexibility
- flexibilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does flexibility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
- 2
The quality of having options.
I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Flexibility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being flexible:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | souplesse, flexibilité |
| German | Flexibilität |
| Portuguese | flexibilidade |
| Spanish | flexibilidad |
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 flexibility come from?
From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“to bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).