legibility
/lɛ.d͡ʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/
"legibility" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“legibility” is uncommon English (frequency #70,027 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,027
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being legible or easily readable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-legibility · legibility · English
legibility · rank #70,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,027
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH legato
Nearest frequency peer: legato (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “legibility”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lawmaking
lawmaking
29,981 corpus weight
- leaderless
leaderless
29,976 corpus weight
- legato
legato
29,975 corpus weight
- legibility
legibility
29,974 corpus weight
- legionella
legionella
29,972 corpus weight
- Letchworth
Letchworth
29,968 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “legibility” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “legibility” in English
Rare enough to double-check
legibility is uncommon English at frequency #70,027 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɛ.d͡ʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legibility appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.
The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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