liceity
/lɪˈsiːɪti/
"liceity" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“liceity” 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 legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-liceity · liceity · English
liceity · 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 | liceity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɪˈsiːɪti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “liceity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
liceity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɪˈsiːɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.".
Zero misspellings are on record for liceity in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin licere. The correct English form is liceity, spelled L-I-C-E-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how liceity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Validity affects the act, while liceity affects the 'legality' of the act. So if a baptism is invalid, then the baptism never occurred (i.e. one has not been baptized and needs to be baptized). So if a baptism is illicit, then it was not celebrated under the structures that the Catholic Church has defined (i.e. one has been baptized, but the Sacrament was…
Etymology
From Latin licere.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.