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locality

lo·cal·i·ty/loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/noun

locality is spelled L-O-C-A-L-I-T-Y: 8 letters and 4 syllables (lo·cal·i·ty). It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, locality means “The fact or quality of having a position in space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of locality is localities.

How many letters and syllables are in locality?

Letters8: L-O-C-A-L-I-T-Y
Syllables4: lo·cal·i·ty
In writing4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is locality?

Locality appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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 locality?

  • US /loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/
  • UK /ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/

Locality has 4 syllables, split lo·cal·i·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-locality.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with locality?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as locality from its last stressed vowel (/ælɪti/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of locality

  • localities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does locality mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The fact or quality of having a position in space.

  2. 2

    The features or surroundings of a particular place.

    a rural locality

  3. 3

    The condition of being local.

  4. 4

    The situation or position of an object.

  5. 5

    An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.

  6. 6

    Limitation to a county, district, or place.

  7. 7

    A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village

  8. 8

    The property or condition of a physical system adhering to the principle of locality.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Locality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanRäumlichkeit (fact or quality of having a position in space), Gegend, Örtlichkeit (features or surroundings of a particular place), Lokalität (maths, computing: condition of being local), Ort, Lage (situation or position of an object)
Frenchrégion (features or surroundings of a particular place), quartier, voisinage (site of certain activity, neighbourhood), localité (built-up area (city, town or village))
Portugueselocalidade (site of certain activity, neighbourhood)
Spanishvecindario, vecindarios, localidad (site of certain activity, neighbourhood)

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 locality come from?

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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