gravity
grav·i·ty/ˈɡɹævɪti/noun
gravity is spelled G-R-A-V-I-T-Y: 7 letters and 3 syllables (grav·i·ty). It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gravity means “Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gravity is gravities.
How many letters and syllables are in gravity?
| Letters | 7: G-R-A-V-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: grav·i·ty |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 gravity?
Gravity appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th 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 gravity?
- /ˈɡɹævɪti/
- [ˈɡɹævɪtʰɪi̯]
- /ˈɡɹævɪɾi/
Gravity has 3 syllables, split grav·i·ty in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-gravity.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-gravity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gravity
- gravities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gravity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; seriousness, solemnity; (countable, archaic or obsolete) a serious or solemn thing, such as a matter, a comment, etc.
- 2
Of an activity, situation, words, etc.: the quality of having important or serious consequences; importance, seriousness.
I hope you appreciate the gravity of the situation.
- 3
obsoleteAuthority, influence, weight; also, used as a title for a person with authority or influence.
- 4
The lowness in pitch of a note, a sound, etc.
- 5
Synonym of gravitation (“the fundamental force of attraction which exists between all matter in the universe that tends to draw bodies towards each other, due to matter causing the curvature of spacetime”); also, a physical law attempting to account for the phenomena of this force.
Aristotelian gravity Newtonian gravity
- 6
datedSynonym of g-force (“the acceleration of a body relative to the freefall acceleration due to any local gravitational field, expressed in multiples of g0 (the mean acceleration due to gravity (sense 2.2.1) at the Earth's surface)”).
- 7
datedDated except in centre of gravity: specific gravity or relative density (“a dimensionless measure which is the ratio of the mass of a substance to that of some reference substance (chiefly an equal volume of water at 4°C)”); also, heaviness, weight.
- 8
obsoleteThe tendency to have weight and thus move downwards, formerly believed to be an inherent quality of some objects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate gravity?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of gravity: gee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gravity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; se:
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 gravity come from?
Borrowed from French gravité (“seriousness, solemnity; severity; (physics) gravity”), or from its etymon Latin gravitās (“heaviness, weight; seriousness; severity”), equivalent to grave (“serious”) + -ity (suffix forming nouns, especially abstract nouns).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).