idioticity

noun

"idioticity" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“idioticity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of idiocy (lack of intelligence or sense)

Corpus desk

Index EN-idioticity · idioticity · English

idioticity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "I" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for idioticity
PropertyValue
Headwordidioticity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “idioticity” in English

idioticityranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

idioticity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of idiocy (lack of intelligence or sense)".

idioticity doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From idiotic + -ity. The correct English form is idioticity, spelled I-D-I-O-T-I-C-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonym of idiocy (lack of intelligence or sense)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how idioticity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Amre? Possible, given the idioticity of our selectors.
  2. Stupidity was admired ... I lost my best job ... Idioticity was installed at all the lower governmental ranks that Bush's henchmen could do and Dick Cheney proved to be possibly even more a mental broken man than Joseph Stalin.

Etymology

From idiotic + -ity.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "idioticity"?
"idioticity" is spelled I-D-I-O-T-I-C-I-T-Y.
What does "idioticity" mean?
As a noun, "idioticity" means: Synonym of idiocy (lack of intelligence or sense)
What is the origin of the word "idioticity"?
From idiotic + -ity. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list