temporality
"temporality" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“temporality” is uncommon English (frequency #93,226 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,226
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).
Corpus desk
Index EN-temporality · temporality · English
temporality · rank #93,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,226
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH telework
Nearest frequency peer: telework (-1 rank slots)
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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 “temporality”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tearjerker
tearjerker
6,778 corpus weight
- telework
telework
6,776 corpus weight
- temporality
temporality
6,775 corpus weight
- temporomand…
temporomandibular
6,774 corpus weight
- Tennent
Tennent
6,773 corpus weight
- tercentenary
tercentenary
6,772 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “temporality” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | temporality |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “temporality” in English
Rare enough to double-check
temporality is uncommon English at frequency #93,226 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for temporality, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From temporal + -ity, from Latin temporalitas. The correct English form is temporality, spelled T-E-M-P-O-R-A-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how temporality appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."
[1927], 2000 Martin Heidegger Being and Timehttp://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=9oc2BnZMCZgC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=temporality&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dtemporality&sig=_AHDrBvcln9-ZTvV9JKNgDGazRY Temporality makes possible the unity of existence, facticity, and falling prey and thus constitutes primordially the totallity of the…
Etymology
From temporal + -ity, from Latin temporalitas.
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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