ubiquitous
ubi·quit·ous/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/adjective
ubiquitous is spelled U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S, 3 syllables: ubi·quit·ous. The wrong spelling people search most is ubiquitious: about 260 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Ubiquitous is an adjective meaning “Being everywhere at once: omnipresent”.
How many letters and syllables are in ubiquitous?
| Letters | 10: U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ubi·quit·ous |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, ubiquitious, about 260 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell ubiquitous?
Ubiquitous is spelled U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for ubiquitous 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 ubiquitous?
Ubiquitous appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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 ubiquitous?
- UK /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/
- UK /juːˈbɪkwətəs/
- US /juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
Ubiquitous has 3 syllables, split ubi·quit·ous in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-ubiquitous.ogg, En-us-ubiquitous.ogg, En-au-ubiquitous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ubiquitous?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as ubiquitous from its last stressed vowel (/ɪkwɪtəs/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does ubiquitous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.
- 2
Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
- 3
Widespread; very prevalent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ubiquitous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ubiquiste, ubiquitaire, omniprésent |
| German | allgegenwärtig, überall vorhanden, überall verbreitet, ubiquitär |
| Portuguese | ubíquo, omnipresente, onipresente |
| Spanish | ubicuo , común |
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 ubiquitous come from?
From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).