unity
/ˈjuːnɪti/noun
unity is spelled U-N-I-T-Y: 5 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Unity, the name). As a noun, unity means “Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of unity is unities.
How many letters and syllables are in unity?
| Letters | 5: U-N-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is unity?
Unity appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Unity, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce unity?
- UK /ˈjuːnɪti/
- UK /-nə-/
- British /ˈjʉwnɪti/
Unity has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-unity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with unity?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as unity from its last stressed vowel (/unɪti/, British pronunciation):
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).
Forms of unity
- unities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
Near-synonyms: unification, unionization, integration
- 2
Agreement; harmony.
- 3
A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
- 4
Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
- 5
The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
the cube roots of unity
- 6
The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
- 7
The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 unity come from?
From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. By surface analysis, unite + -y. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).