similarity
/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/noun
similarity is spelled S-I-M-I-L-A-R-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is similiarity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Similarity is a noun meaning “Closeness of appearance to something else”. The plural of similarity is similarities.
How many letters and syllables are in similarity?
| Letters | 10: S-I-M-I-L-A-R-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, similiarity, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 similarity?
Similarity is spelled S-I-M-I-L-A-R-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for similarity in either form.
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 similarity?
Similarity appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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 similarity?
- UK /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/
- UK /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
- UK /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
Similarity has 5 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-similarity.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Arlo_Barnes-similarity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with similarity?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as similarity from its last stressed vowel (/æɹɪti/, 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 similarity
- similarities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does similarity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Closeness of appearance to something else.
- 2
The relation of sharing properties.
- 3
A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
- 4
The property of two matrices being similar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Similarity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense closeness of appearance:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | similarité, similitude |
| German | Ähnlichkeit |
| Portuguese | semelhança, similaridade |
| Spanish | semejanza, similaridad |
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 similarity come from?
From French similarité.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).