perspicuity
/ˌpɚspəˈkjuəti/noun
perspicuity is spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-U-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is perspecuity: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Perspicuity is a noun meaning “Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous”. The plural of perspicuity is perspicuities.
How many letters and syllables are in perspicuity?
| Letters | 11: P-E-R-S-P-I-C-U-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, perspecuity, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell perspicuity?
Perspicuity is spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-U-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for perspicuity 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 perspicuity?
Perspicuity appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 perspicuity?
- UK /ˌpəːspɪˈkjuːɪti/
- US /ˌpɚspəˈkjuəti/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-perspicuity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with perspicuity?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as perspicuity from its last stressed vowel (/uəti/):
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 perspicuity
- perspicuities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does perspicuity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.
- 2
Perspicacity; insight.
- 3
rareTransparency; translucence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Perspicuity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | perspicuidad |
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 perspicuity come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin perspicuitās (“evidentness”, “self-evidency”, literally “transparency”, “clarity”, “lucidity”), from Latin perspicuus (“clear”, “transparent”; “evident”); compare perspicacity and the French perspicuité. By surface analysis, perspicuous + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).