municipality
/mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/noun
municipality is spelled M-U-N-I-C-I-P-A-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is muncipality: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 74 of all searches for the word. Municipality is a noun meaning “A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or…”. The plural of municipality is municipalities.
How many letters and syllables are in municipality?
| Letters | 12: M-U-N-I-C-I-P-A-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, muncipality, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell municipality?
Municipality is spelled M-U-N-I-C-I-P-A-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 74 of the searches for municipality 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 municipality?
Municipality appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 municipality?
- UK /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/
Municipality has 6 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-municipality.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-municipality.wav, En-us-municipality.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with municipality?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as municipality from its last stressed vowel (/ælɪti/, British pronunciation):
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 municipality
- municipalities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does municipality mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
- 2
The governing body of such a district.
- 3
In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate municipality?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of municipality: munic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Municipality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | municipalité |
| German | Gemeinde, Munizipalität |
| Portuguese | município, comuna , governo municipal |
| Spanish | municipio |
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 municipality come from?
Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).