nasality
/neɪˈzælɪtiː/noun
nasality is a noun meaning “The state or quality of being nasal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-S-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nasality is nasalities.
What does nasality mean?
noun
- 1
The state or quality of being nasal.
Near-synonym: twang
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nasality?
- /neɪˈzælɪtiː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-nasality.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nasality
- nasalities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nasality?
Nasality appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Nasality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state or quality of being nasal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nasalité |
| German | Nasalität |
| Portuguese | nasalidade |
| Spanish | nasalidad |
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 nasality come from?
From nasal + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).