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singularity

/ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/noun

singularity is spelled S-I-N-G-U-L-A-R-I-T-Y: 11 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, singularity means “The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of singularity is singularities.

How many letters and syllables are in singularity?

Letters11: S-I-N-G-U-L-A-R-I-T-Y
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is singularity?

Singularity appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th 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 singularity?

  • /ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/
  • /-tiː/

Singularity 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-singularity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of singularity

  • singularities plural

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

What does singularity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.

  2. 2

    An unusual action or behaviour.

  3. 3

    A point where all parallel lines meet.

  4. 4

    A point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value.

  5. 5

    The value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist.

  6. 6

    Ellipsis of gravitational singularity (“a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes”).

  7. 7

    Ellipsis of technological singularity (“a hypothetical turning point in the future, the culmination of ever-accelerating technological progress, when human history as we have known it ends, and a strange new era begins. For some writers, the catalyst is superhuman machine intelligence”).

  8. 8

    obsoleteAnything singular, rare, or curious.

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

Singularity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsingularité (peculiar state or occurrence), point m de fuite (point where all lines meet)
GermanEigenheit (peculiar state or occurrence), Singularität (point where infinite value is reached)
Portuguesesingularidade (peculiar state or occurrence)
Spanishsingularidad (peculiar state or occurrence)

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 singularity come from?

From Middle English singularite, from Old French singularité, from Late Latin singulāritās (“singleness”), from Latin singulāris (“single”). By surface analysis, singular + -ity.

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

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