proclivity
/pɹoʊˈklɪvɪti/noun
proclivity is spelled P-R-O-C-L-I-V-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is preclivity: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 137 of all searches for the word. Proclivity is a noun meaning “A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or…”. The plural of proclivity is proclivities.
How many letters and syllables are in proclivity?
| Letters | 10: P-R-O-C-L-I-V-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,074th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, preclivity, about 20 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 proclivity?
Proclivity is spelled P-R-O-C-L-I-V-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 138 of the searches for proclivity 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 proclivity?
Proclivity appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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 proclivity?
- UK /pɹəʊˈklɪvɪti/
- UK /pɹəˈklɪvɪti/
- US /pɹoʊˈklɪvɪti/
Proclivity has 4 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: En-us-proclivity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with proclivity?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as proclivity from its last stressed vowel (/ɪvɪti/):
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 proclivity
- proclivities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does proclivity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.
The child has a proclivity for exaggeration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Proclivity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | propension, penchant, tendance, inclination |
| German | Hang, Vorliebe, Schwäche, Neigung |
| Spanish | propensión, tendencia, inclinación, afición, predilección, gusto |
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 proclivity come from?
From Latin prōclīvitās, from prōclīvis (“prone to”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).