insalubrity

noun

"insalubrity" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness

Corpus desk

Index EN-insalubrity · insalubrity · English

insalubrity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "I" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for insalubrity
PropertyValue
Headwordinsalubrity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “insalubrity” in English

insalubrityfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

insalubrity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for insalubrity, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is insalubrity, spelled I-N-S-A-L-U-B-R-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. [S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness.

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 "insalubrity"?
"insalubrity" is spelled I-N-S-A-L-U-B-R-I-T-Y.
What does "insalubrity" mean?
As a noun, "insalubrity" means: The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness
What language does "insalubrity" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list