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homogeneity

UK /ˌhɒm.ə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/noun

homogeneity is spelled H-O-M-O-G-E-N-E-I-T-Y: 11 letters and 6 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, homogeneity means “The condition of being homogeneous: having uniformity of constituent content” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of homogeneity is homogeneities.

How many letters and syllables are in homogeneity?

Letters11: H-O-M-O-G-E-N-E-I-T-Y
Syllables6 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is homogeneity?

Homogeneity appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd 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 homogeneity?

  • UK /ˌhɒm.ə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
  • UK /ˌhəʊ.mə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
  • UK /ˌhɒm.ə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈneɪ.ə.ti/

Homogeneity has 6 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-homogeneity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of homogeneity

  • homogeneities plural

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

What does homogeneity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being homogeneous: having uniformity of constituent content.

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

Homogeneity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of being homogeneous:

LanguageWords
Frenchhomogénéité
GermanHomogenität
Portuguesehomogeneidade, homogenia
Spanishhomogeneidad

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.

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