sociability
/ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/
"sociability" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sociability” is uncommon English (frequency #70,267 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,267
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sociability · sociability · English
sociability · rank #70,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,267
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH snowballed
Nearest frequency peer: snowballed (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “sociability”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sinless
sinless
29,742 corpus weight
- slapper
slapper
29,741 corpus weight
- slowpoke
slowpoke
29,739 corpus weight
- snowballed
snowballed
29,735 corpus weight
- sociability
sociability
29,734 corpus weight
- sonorous
sonorous
29,727 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sociability” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sociability |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sociability” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sociability is uncommon English at frequency #70,267 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sociability, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French sociabilité, from Latin sociābilis. The correct English form is sociability, spelled S-O-C-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sociability appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was a true introvert, and his sociability lagged behind others of his age in the school.
Etymology
From Middle French sociabilité, from Latin sociābilis.
This word in other languages
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.
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