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inelasticity

noun

inelasticity is spelled I-N-E-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, inelasticity means “The quality of being inflexible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of inelasticity is inelasticities.

How many letters and syllables are in inelasticity?

Letters12: I-N-E-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th 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 inelasticity?

Inelasticity appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).

Forms of inelasticity

  • inelasticities plural

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

What does inelasticity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being inflexible.

  2. 2

    The insensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.

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

Inelasticity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of not being elastic:

LanguageWords
Frenchinélasticité

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 inelasticity come from?

From in- + elasticity.

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

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