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proportionality

/pɹəpɔɹʃəˈnæləti/noun

proportionality is spelled P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y: 15 letters and 6 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, proportionality means “the property of being proportional” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of proportionality is proportionalities.

How many letters and syllables are in proportionality?

Letters15: P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y
Syllables6 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 44,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is proportionality?

Proportionality appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th 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 proportionality?

  • /pɹəpɔɹʃəˈnæləti/
  • /pɹəpɔɹʃɪnˈælɪti/

Proportionality has 6 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-proportionality.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of proportionality

  • proportionalities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does proportionality mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    the property of being proportional

  2. 2

    the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)

  3. 3

    the degree to which something is in proportion

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Proportionality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the property of being proportional:

LanguageWords
Frenchproportionnalité
GermanProportionalität
Portugueseproporcionalidade
Spanishproporcionalidad

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 proportionality come from?

From proportional + -ity, from Latin proportionalitas.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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