longitude
/ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtʃuːd/noun
longitude is spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-E: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, longitude means “Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of longitude is longitudes.
How many letters and syllables are in longitude?
| Letters | 9: L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is longitude?
Longitude appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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 longitude?
- /ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtʃuːd/
- /ˈlɒŋɡɪtjuːd/
- /ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtjuːd/
Longitude has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-longitude.ogg, En-GB-longitude.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of longitude
- longitudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does longitude mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
- 2
Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
- 3
archaicLength.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate longitude?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of longitude: lon, lon., long, long..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Longitude in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | longitude |
| German | Länge, geographische Länge , Längengrad |
| Portuguese | longitude |
| Spanish | longitud |
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 longitude come from?
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).