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impracticality

UK /ɪmˈpɹæk.tɪˌkæl.ɪ.ti/noun

impracticality is spelled I-M-P-R-A-C-T-I-C-A-L-I-T-Y: 14 letters and 6 syllables. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, impracticality means “The state or quality of being impractical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of impracticality is impracticalities.

How many letters and syllables are in impracticality?

Letters14: I-M-P-R-A-C-T-I-C-A-L-I-T-Y
Syllables6 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 impracticality?

Impracticality appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 impracticality?

  • Canada /ɪmˌpɹæktəˈkæləti/
  • UK /ɪmˈpɹæk.tɪˌkæl.ɪ.ti/

Impracticality has 6 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of impracticality

  • impracticalities plural

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

What does impracticality mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being impractical.

  2. 2

    Something which is impractical.

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

Where does impracticality come from?

From impractical + -ity.

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

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