validity
[vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti]noun
validity is spelled V-A-L-I-D-I-T-Y: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, validity means “The state of being valid, authentic or genuine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of validity is validities.
How many letters and syllables are in validity?
| Letters | 8: V-A-L-I-D-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is validity?
Validity appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 validity?
- /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/
- /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/
- US [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti]
Validity has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-validity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of validity
- validities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does validity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- 2
State of having legal force.
- 3
A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
- 4
The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Validity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state of being valid, authentic or genuine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | validité |
| German | Gültigkeit |
| Portuguese | validez, validade |
| Spanish | validez |
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 validity come from?
From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).