reality

/ɹiˈæləti/noun

reality is spelled R-E-A-L-I-T-Y: 7 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 78 times per million words in written English, the 1,369th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Reality, the name). As a noun, reality means “The state of being actual or real; realness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of reality is realities.

How many letters and syllables are in reality?

Letters	7: R-E-A-L-I-T-Y
Syllables	4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	78 times per million words; the 1,369th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	personality sexuality hospitality neutrality more

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is reality?

Reality appears 78 times per million words in written English, the 1,369th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Reality, the name.

reality0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce reality?

UK /ɹiːˈælɪti/
US /ɹiˈæləti/

Reality 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-reality.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with reality?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as reality from its last stressed vowel (/æləti/):

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 reality

realities plural

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

What does reality mean?

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

noun

1
The state of being actual or real; realness.
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
2
The real world.
3
A real entity, event, or other fact.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
4
The entirety of all that is real.
5
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
6
obsoleteLoyalty; devotion.
7
obsoleteRealty; real estate.
8
Reality television.
a foray into reality programming

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

Reality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	réalité (state of being actual or real), vérité (a real entity, event etc)
German	Wirklichkeit, Realität (state of being actual or real)
Portuguese	realidade (state of being actual or real)
Spanish	realidad (state of being actual or real)

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.