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fraternity

fra·tern·i·ty/fɹəˈtɜɹnəti/noun

fraternity is spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-Y: 10 letters and 4 syllables (fra·tern·i·ty). It appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fraternity means “The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fraternity is fraternities.

How many letters and syllables are in fraternity?

Letters10: F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-Y
Syllables4: fra·tern·i·ty
In writing3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is fraternity?

Fraternity appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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 fraternity?

  • UK /fɹəˈtɜːnɪti/
  • US /fɹəˈtɜɹnəti/
  • US [-ɾi]

Fraternity has 4 syllables, split fra·tern·i·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fraternity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fraternity?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fraternity from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹnəti/):

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 fraternity

  • fraternities plural

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

What does fraternity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

  2. 2

    A group of people associated for a common purpose.

  3. 3

    USA social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

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

Fraternity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanBruderschaft (the quality of being brothers), Gemeinschaft, Vereinigung (group of people associated for a common purpose), Verbindung, Burschenschaft (social organization of male students)
Portuguesefraternidade, irmandade (the quality of being brothers)
Spanishhermandad (the quality of being brothers), fraternidad, confraternidad (group of people associated for a common purpose)
Frenchfraternité (group of people associated for a common purpose)

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 fraternity come from?

From Middle English fraternite, borrowed from Old French fraternité, from Latin frāternitās, ultimately from frāter (“brother”).

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

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