tortuosity
noun
tortuosity is spelled T-O-R-T-U-O-S-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is tortuousity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Tortuosity is a noun meaning “tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature”. The plural of tortuosity is tortuosities.
How many letters and syllables are in tortuosity?
| Letters | 10: T-O-R-T-U-O-S-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, tortuousity, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 tortuosity?
Tortuosity is spelled T-O-R-T-U-O-S-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for tortuosity 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 tortuosity?
Tortuosity appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).
Forms of tortuosity
- tortuosities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tortuosity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
- 2
Crookedness.
- 3
A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tortuosity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (physics) property of curve being tortuous:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Tortuosität |
| Portuguese | tortuosidade |
| Spanish | tortuosidad |
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 tortuosity come from?
From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).