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mortality

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/noun

mortality is spelled M-O-R-T-A-L-I-T-Y: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mortality means “The state of being susceptible to death” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mortality is mortalities.

How many letters and syllables are in mortality?

Letters9: M-O-R-T-A-L-I-T-Y
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is mortality?

Mortality appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 mortality?

  • US /mɔɹˈtælɪti/

Mortality has 4 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-mortality.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with mortality?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mortality 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 mortality

  • mortalities plural

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

What does mortality mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being susceptible to death.

  2. 2

    archaicThe quality of being punishable by death.

  3. 3

    archaicThe quality of causing death.

  4. 4

    Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

  5. 5

    The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

  6. 6

    Death.

  7. 7

    archaicMortals collectively.

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

Mortality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmortalité, condition mortelle (condition of being susceptible to death), taux de mortalité (death rate)
GermanSterblichkeit (condition of being susceptible to death), Mortalität, Sterbeziffer, Mortalitätsziffer (death rate)
Portuguesemortalidade (condition of being susceptible to death)
Spanishmortalidad (condition of being susceptible to death)

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 mortality come from?

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

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

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