rarity
/ˈɹɛə.ɹə.ti/
"rarity" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rarity” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,170
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A measure of the scarcity of an object.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rarity · rarity · English
rarity · rank #18,170 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,170
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH realty
Nearest frequency peer: realty (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rarity”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- purchaser
purchaser
81,834 corpus weight
- Rahul
Rahul
81,833 corpus weight
- rarity
rarity
81,831 corpus weight
- realty
realty
81,830 corpus weight
- rebellious
rebellious
81,829 corpus weight
- referencing
referencing
81,827 corpus weight
What this shows “rarity” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rarity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛə.ɹə.ti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rarity”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rarity (IPA /ˈɹɛə.ɹə.ti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,170 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rarity, with forms such as "arrity", "rairty", and "raritty". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ratify", "reality", "rainy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rare + -ity, borrowed from Middle French rarité, from Latin rāritās; compare French rareté. See also rare. The correct English form is rarity, spelled R-A-R-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A measure of the scarcity of an object.
- 2Thinness; the property of having low density
- 3A rare object.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rarity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Only the increasing rarity bothered him, and he thought that perhaps it was this which had turned the heads of other travellers and excited those absurd tales of night-gaunts whereby they explained the loss of such climbers as fell from these perilous paths.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long af…
Etymology
From rare + -ity, borrowed from Middle French rarité, from Latin rāritās; compare French rareté. See also rare.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arrity
- rairty
- raritty
- rarityy
- rariyt
- rarrity
- rartiy
- rraity
- rrarity
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rarity - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rarity", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).