legibility
/lɛ.d͡ʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/
"legibility" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“legibility” is an uncommon English word, ranked #70,027 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #70,027
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The property of being legible or easily readable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legibility |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɛ.d͡ʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “legibility” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for legibility is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /lɛ.d͡ʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/. Corpus data places it at rank #70,027 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The property of being legible or easily readable.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for legibility, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is legibility, spelled L-E-G-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The property of being legible or easily readable.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “legibility”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-E-G-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /lɛ.d͡ʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.