quantity
/ˈkwɑn(t)ɪti/noun
quantity is spelled Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is quanity: about 570 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Quantity is a noun meaning “A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector…”. The plural of quantity is quantities.
How many letters and syllables are in quantity?
| Letters | 8: Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, quanity, about 570 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 quantity?
Quantity is spelled Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for quantity 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 quantity?
Quantity appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 quantity?
- UK /ˈkwɒn.tɪ.ti/
- US /ˈkwɑn(t)ɪti/
- US [ˈkʰwɑn(ɾ)ɨɾi]
Quantity 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: En-gb-quantity.ogg, En-us-quantity2.ogg, En-us-quantity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of quantity
- quantities plural
- qty
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quantity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
You have to choose between quantity and quality.
- 2
An indefinite amount of something.
Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.
- 3
A specific measured amount.
This bag would normally cost $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
- 4
A considerable measure or amount.
The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
- 5
Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
- 6
Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
x plus y quantity squared equals x squared plus 2xy plus y squared.
- 7
Length of sounds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate quantity?
Wiktionary records 6 abbreviations of quantity: q'ty, qty, quant, quant., qy, qy..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quantity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | quantité |
| German | Quantität, Menge , in Klammern |
| Portuguese | quantidade |
| Spanish | cantidad, cuantía |
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 quantity come from?
From Middle English quantite, from Old French quantité, from Latin quantitās (“quantity”), from quantus (“how much”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).