permittivity
"permittivity" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“permittivity” is uncommon English (frequency #80,751 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,751
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.
Corpus desk
Index EN-permittivity · permittivity · English
permittivity · rank #80,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,751
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pericardial
Nearest frequency peer: pericardial (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “permittivity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pericardial
pericardial
19,251 corpus weight
- permittivity
permittivity
19,250 corpus weight
- perplexity
perplexity
19,249 corpus weight
- pervasivene…
pervasiveness
19,248 corpus weight
- photocopier
photocopier
19,247 corpus weight
- Phuong
Phuong
19,246 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “permittivity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permittivity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #80,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “permittivity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
permittivity is uncommon English at frequency #80,751 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.".
Zero misspellings are on record for permittivity in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From permittive + -ity. The correct English form is permittivity, spelled P-E-R-M-I-T-T-I-V-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.
Etymology
From permittive + -ity.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).