versatility
ver·sa·til·i·ty/ˌvɜɹ.səˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/noun
versatility is spelled V-E-R-S-A-T-I-L-I-T-Y, 5 syllables: ver·sa·til·i·ty. The wrong spelling people search most is versitlity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 79 of all searches for the word. Versatility is a noun meaning “The property of being versatile or having many different abilities”. The plural of versatility is versatilities.
How many letters and syllables are in versatility?
| Letters | 11: V-E-R-S-A-T-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: ver·sa·til·i·ty |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, versitlity, about 10 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 versatility?
Versatility is spelled V-E-R-S-A-T-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 79 of the searches for versatility 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 versatility?
Versatility appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 versatility?
- UK /ˌvɜː.səˈtɪl.ɪ.tiː/
- US /ˌvɜɹ.səˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
- /ˌvøː.səˈtəl.ə.tiː/
Versatility has 5 syllables, split ver·sa·til·i·ty in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-versatility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with versatility?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as versatility from its last stressed vowel (/ɪlɪti/):
- availability
- mobility
- flexibility
- visibility
- hostility
- profitability
- nobility
- viability
- solubility
- permeability
- mutability
- servility
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 versatility
- versatilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does versatility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The property of being versatile or having many different abilities.
Those are the sort of women who polish a young man the most, and who give him that habit of complaisance, and that flexibility and versatility of manners which prove of great use to him with men, and in the course of business.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Versatility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the property of being versatile or having many different abilities:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | polyvalence |
| German | Vielseitigkeit, Einsatzvielfalt, vielseitige Anwendbarkeit, Flexibilität, Gewandtheit |
| Portuguese | versatilidade |
| Spanish | versatilidad |
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 versatility come from?
From versatile + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).