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rurality

noun

rurality is a noun meaning “The state of being rural” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-R-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rurality is ruralities.

What does rurality mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being rural.

  2. 2

    A rural characteristic.

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

Forms of rurality

  • ruralities plural

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

How common is rurality?

Rurality appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).

Where does rurality come from?

From rural + -ity.

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