prevalence
/ˈpɹɛvələns/noun
prevalence is spelled P-R-E-V-A-L-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is prevelance: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Prevalence is a noun meaning “The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread”. The plural of prevalence is prevalences.
How many letters and syllables are in prevalence?
| Letters | 10: P-R-E-V-A-L-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, prevelance, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell prevalence?
Prevalence is spelled P-R-E-V-A-L-E-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for prevalence 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 prevalence?
Prevalence appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 prevalence?
- /ˈpɹɛvələns/
- /pɹɪˈveɪləns/
Prevalence has 3 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)-Vininn126-prevalence.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of prevalence
- prevalences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prevalence mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
- 2
The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prevalence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prédominance , prévalence |
| German | weite Verbreitung, Vorherrschen, Verbreitetsein, starkes Vorkommen , Prävalenz, Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit |
| Spanish | prevalencia |
| Portuguese | prevalência |
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 prevalence come from?
Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).