incompatibility
/ˌɪnkəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪti/noun
incompatibility is spelled I-N-C-O-M-P-A-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is incompatability: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Incompatibility is a noun meaning “The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability”. The plural of incompatibility is incompatibilities.
How many letters and syllables are in incompatibility?
| Letters | 15: I-N-C-O-M-P-A-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 7 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, incompatability, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell incompatibility?
Incompatibility is spelled I-N-C-O-M-P-A-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for incompatibility in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is incompatibility?
Incompatibility appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th 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 incompatibility?
- /ˌɪnkəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪti/
Incompatibility has 7 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-incompatibility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of incompatibility
- incompatibilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does incompatibility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Incompatibility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the quality or state of being incompatible:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | incompatibilité |
| German | Unvereinberkeit, Inkompatibilität |
| Portuguese | incompatibilidade |
| Spanish | incompatibilidad |
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 incompatibility come from?
From incompatible + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).