integrity
/ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/noun
integrity is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is intergrity: about 750 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Integrity is a noun meaning “Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code”. The plural of integrity is integrities.
How many letters and syllables are in integrity?
| Letters | 9: I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, intergrity, about 750 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 integrity?
Integrity is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for integrity 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 integrity?
Integrity appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 integrity?
- /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/
- /ɪnˈtɛɡɹɪti/
Integrity has 4 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: En-us-integrity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of integrity
- integrities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does integrity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
- 2
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
- 3
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
- 4
With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
- 5
The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
- 6
Trustworthiness; keeping one's word.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Integrity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Integrität, Prinzipienfestigkeit |
| Portuguese | integridade |
| Spanish | integridad |
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 integrity come from?
Borrowed from Middle French intégrité, from Latin integritās (“soundness, integrity”), from integer. Doublet of entirety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).