metallicity
noun
metallicity is a noun meaning “The quality or state of being metallic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of metallicity is metallicities.
What does metallicity mean?
noun
- 1
The quality or state of being metallic.
- 2
The abundance of elements heavier than helium in stars as a result of nucleosynthesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of metallicity
- metallicities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is metallicity?
Metallicity appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).
Where does metallicity come from?
From metallic + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).