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security

se·cu·rit·yUK /sɪˈkjʊəɹɪti/noun

security is spelled S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y, 4 syllables: se·cu·rit·y. The wrong spelling people search most is secuirty: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Security is a noun meaning “The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially”. The plural of security is securities.

How many letters and syllables are in security?

Letters8: S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y
Syllables4: se·cu·rit·y
In writing158 times per million words; the 638th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, secuirty, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell security?

Security is spelled S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.

securitythe right spelling
secuirtyr and i swapped270 searches a month

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 security?

Security appears 158 times per million words in written English, the 638th 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 security?

  • UK /sɪˈkjʊəɹɪti/
  • UK /sɪˈkjɔːɹəti/
  • British /sɪˈkjɵːɹɪtɪj/

Security has 4 syllables, split se·cu·rit·y in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-security.wav, En-us-security.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with security?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as security from its last stressed vowel (/ʊəɹɪti/, British pronunciation):

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 security

  • securities plural

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

What does security mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.

    Chad always carries a gun for his own security.

  2. 2

    Something that secures.

  3. 3

    An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.

    Pamela works in security.

  4. 4

    Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.

  5. 5

    Freedom from apprehension.

  6. 6

    A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock or any of various classes of bond.

  7. 7

    Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.

  8. 8

    Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.

    Near-synonym: collateral

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

How do you abbreviate security?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of security: Sec..

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

Security in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsécurité (condition of not being threatened), sécurisant (something that secures), titre négociable, papier-valeur (finance: tradeable financial asset)
GermanSicherheit (condition of not being threatened), Schutz (something that secures), Wertpapier (finance: tradeable financial asset), Sicherheitsdienst (organization or department responsible for…)
Portuguesesegurança (condition of not being threatened), garantia (finance: tradeable financial asset)
Spanishseguridad, confianza, seguranza, asegureña (condition of not being threatened), garantía (something that secures)

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 security come from?

From secure + -ity, from Middle English securite, from Middle French securité (modern sécurité), from Latin sēcūritās, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Similar to Latin sine cūrā (“without care, carefree”), which led to English sinecure. Doublet of surety.

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

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