hostilities
hos·til·i·ties/hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/noun
hostilities is spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-I-T-I-E-S: 11 letters and 4 syllables (hos·til·i·ties). It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hostilities means “Acts of war” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in hostilities?
| Letters | 11: H-O-S-T-I-L-I-T-I-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: hos·til·i·ties |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,228th 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 hostilities?
Hostilities appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th 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 hostilities?
- US /hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/
- UK /hɒˈstɪlɪtiz/
Hostilities has 4 syllables, split hos·til·i·ties in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-hostilities.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does hostilities mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Acts of war.
- 2
plural of hostility
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hostilities in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense acts of war:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hostilidades |
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.