suavity
"suavity" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suavity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suavity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “suavity” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
suavity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suavity, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās. The correct English form is suavity, spelled S-U-A-V-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
- 2The quality of being suave.
- 3Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
Etymology
From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “suavity”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-A-V-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.