stability
/stəˈbɪlɪti/noun
stability is spelled S-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is stablility: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 167 of all searches for the word. Stability is a noun meaning “The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change”. The plural of stability is stabilities.
How many letters and syllables are in stability?
| Letters | 9: S-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stablility, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell stability?
Stability is spelled S-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 166 of the searches for stability 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 stability?
Stability appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 stability?
- /stəˈbɪlɪti/
- [stəˈbɪlɪɾi]
Stability has 4 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: En-us-stability.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stability
- stabilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stability mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
This platform offers good stability
- 2
The tendency to recover from perturbations.
emotional stability
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense condition of being stable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stabilité |
| German | Stabilität |
| Portuguese | estabilidade |
| Spanish | estabilidad |
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 stability come from?
From Middle English stabletee, stabilite, from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”). Displaced native Old English staþolfæstnes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).