sentimentality

Name: sentimentality, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“sentimentality” has 22 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,755. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,755
frequency rank, English: 6,566
“S” headwords: 22
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act or state of being sentimental.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sentimentality · sentimentality · English

sentimentality · rank #36,755 · 22 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #36,755
LEN-MEGA 14 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 22 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,566
PHOTO-FINISH senpai

Nearest frequency peer: senpai (-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.

scold

63,249
seducing

63,248
senpai

63,247
sentimental…

63,246
Shaolin

63,244
Shimon

63,243

What this shows “sentimentality” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Key facts for sentimentality
Property	Value
Headword	sentimentality
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	14
Frequency rank	#36,755
Misspellings tracked	22
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sentimentality”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).sentimentalitylands here:

#36,755

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “senpai” (#36,754), “seducing” (#36,753), “Shaolin” (#36,757). Among 6,566 “S” headwords, “sentimentality” is #36,755. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 22 spelling variants around sentimentality, anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,755 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An act or state of being sentimental.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentimentality, with forms such as "esntimentality", "senitmentality", and "senntimentality". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From sentimental + -ity. The correct English form is sentimentality, spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-T-Y.

Definition

1
An act or state of being sentimental.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sentimentality appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.

Etymology

From sentimental + -ity.

This word in other languages

sentimentalité(Français)Sentimentalität(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

esntimentality
senitmentality
senntimentality
sentiemntality
sentimenatlity
sentimenntality
sentimentailty
sentimentalitty
sentimentalityy
sentimentaliyt
sentimentallity
sentimentaltiy
sentimentlaity
sentimenttality
sentimetnality
sentimmentality
sentimnetality
sentmientality
senttimentality
setnimentality
snetimentality
ssentimentality

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentimentality - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "sentimentality"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sentimentality"?

"sentimentality" is spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-T-Y.

What does "sentimentality" mean?

As a noun, "sentimentality" means: An act or state of being sentimental.

What are common misspellings of "sentimentality"?

Common misspellings include "esntimentality", "senitmentality", "senntimentality", "sentiemntality", "sentimenatlity". The correct spelling is "sentimentality".

What is the origin of the word "sentimentality"?

From sentimental + -ity. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sentimentality", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).

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