verbosity
/vəˈbɒsəti/
"verbosity" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“verbosity” is an uncommon English word, ranked #97,679 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #97,679
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
| 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) |
Where “verbosity” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for verbosity is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vəˈbɒsəti/. Corpus data places it at rank #97,679 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “verbosity”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-E-R-B-O-S-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /vəˈbɒsəti/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.