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insipidity

noun

insipidity is spelled I-N-S-I-P-I-D-I-T-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, insipidity means “The condition of being insipid; insipidness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of insipidity is insipidities.

How many letters and syllables are in insipidity?

Letters10: I-N-S-I-P-I-D-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th 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 insipidity?

Insipidity appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 insipidity

  • insipidities plural

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

What does insipidity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being insipid; insipidness.

  2. 2

    Something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.

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

Insipidity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense condition of being insipid:

LanguageWords
Frenchinsipidité
Portugueseinsipidez
Spanishinsipidez, desazón

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 insipidity come from?

Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsipiditās. By surface analysis, insipid + -ity.

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

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