functionality
noun
functionality is spelled F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is funtionality: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 62 of all searches for the word. Functionality is a noun meaning “The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to…”. The plural of functionality is functionalities.
How many letters and syllables are in functionality?
| Letters | 13: F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, funtionality, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell functionality?
Functionality is spelled F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 62 of the searches for functionality 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 functionality?
Functionality appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 functionality?
- US
Functionality 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-functionality.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of functionality
- functionalities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does functionality mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
- 2
USIn trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than the identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
- 3
The presence of a functional group.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Functionality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ability:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fonctionnalité |
| German | Funktionalität |
| Portuguese | funcionalidade |
| Spanish | funcionalidad |
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.