sociability
/ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/
"sociability" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sociability” is an uncommon English word, ranked #70,267 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #70,267
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
| 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) |
Where “sociability” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for sociability is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/. Corpus data places it at rank #70,267 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “sociability”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-O-C-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.