verbosity
/vəˈbɒsəti/
"verbosity" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“verbosity” is uncommon English (frequency #97,679 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,679
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
Corpus desk
Index EN-verbosity · verbosity · English
verbosity · rank #97,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,679
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH uvula
Nearest frequency peer: uvula (-3 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “verbosity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- updater
updater
2,329 corpus weight
- upgradable
upgradable
2,328 corpus weight
- uvula
uvula
2,325 corpus weight
- verbosity
verbosity
2,322 corpus weight
- vexation
vexation
2,319 corpus weight
- violist
violist
2,316 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “verbosity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbosity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vəˈbɒsəti/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “verbosity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
verbosity is uncommon English at frequency #97,679 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vəˈbɒsəti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for verbosity, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French verbosité, from Late Latin verbōsitās. By surface analysis, verbose + -ity. The correct English form is verbosity, spelled V-E-R-B-O-S-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how verbosity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Etymology
From Middle French verbosité, from Late Latin verbōsitās. By surface analysis, verbose + -ity.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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