multicollinearity
noun
multicollinearity is spelled M-U-L-T-I-C-O-L-L-I-N-E-A-R-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is multicolinearity: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Multicollinearity is a noun meaning “A phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated…”. The plural of multicollinearity is multicollinearities.
How many letters and syllables are in multicollinearity?
| Letters | 17: M-U-L-T-I-C-O-L-L-I-N-E-A-R-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, multicolinearity, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell multicollinearity?
Multicollinearity is spelled M-U-L-T-I-C-O-L-L-I-N-E-A-R-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for multicollinearity in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is multicollinearity?
Multicollinearity appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Forms of multicollinearity
- multicollinearities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does multicollinearity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, so that the coefficient estimates may change erratically in response to small changes in the model or data.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does multicollinearity come from?
From multicollinear + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).