laicity
/leɪˈɪsɪti/
"laicity" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laicity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
Corpus desk
Index EN-laicity · laicity · English
laicity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laicity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /leɪˈɪsɪti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “laicity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
laicity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /leɪˈɪsɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for laicity, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity. The correct English form is laicity, spelled L-A-I-C-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
- 2Alternative form of laïcité.
- 3Synonym of secularism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laicity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]
This shows that there can be laicity even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].
Etymology
Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.
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.