variety
va·ri·e·ty/vəˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/noun
variety is spelled V-A-R-I-E-T-Y, 4 syllables: va·ri·e·ty. The wrong spelling people search most is varity: about 730 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Variety is a noun meaning “A deviation or difference”. The plural of variety is varieties or variëties.
How many letters and syllables are in variety?
| Letters | 7: V-A-R-I-E-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: va·ri·e·ty |
| In writing | 56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, varity, about 730 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 variety?
Variety is spelled V-A-R-I-E-T-Y. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for variety 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 variety?
Variety appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 variety?
- UK /vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/
- US /vəˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
- US /-ɾi/
Variety has 4 syllables, split va·ri·e·ty in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-variety.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with variety?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as variety from its last stressed vowel (/aɪəti/):
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 variety
- varieties plural
- variete
- varietie
- variëty
- variëties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does variety mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A deviation or difference.
- 2
A specific variation of something.
- 3
An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
- 4
A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum is a variety of Capsicum annuum commonly known as chiltepin or Indian pepper.
- 5
A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level.
Near-synonym: dialect (sometimes synonymous)
- 6
A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
- 7
A collection or number of different things.
- 8
In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
noun
- 1
rareRare spelling of variety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate variety?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of variety: var..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Variety in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | variété |
| German | Sorte , Varietät , Sprachform, Sprachvarietät |
| Portuguese | variedade |
| Spanish | variedad |
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.