tumidity
"tumidity" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tumidity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tumidity · tumidity · English
tumidity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tumidity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tumidity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tumidity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tumidity in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tumid + -ity, after Latin tumiditās. The correct English form is tumidity, spelled T-U-M-I-D-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tumidity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is, however, one [passage] in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.
Etymology
From tumid + -ity, after Latin tumiditās.
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.