vicinity
/vəˈsɪnəti/noun
vicinity is spelled V-I-C-I-N-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is vacinity: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Vicinity is a noun meaning “Proximity; the state of being near”. The plural of vicinity is vicinities.
How many letters and syllables are in vicinity?
| Letters | 8: V-I-C-I-N-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, vacinity, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 vicinity?
Vicinity is spelled V-I-C-I-N-I-T-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for vicinity 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 vicinity?
Vicinity appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 vicinity?
- UK /vɪˈsɪnɪti/
- US /vəˈsɪnəti/
Vicinity 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-vicinity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with vicinity?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vicinity from its last stressed vowel (/ɪnəti/):
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 vicinity
- vicinities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vicinity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Proximity; the state of being near.
There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear.
- 2
Neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area.
There is a hurricane in the vicinity of the Bahamas.
- 3
Approximate size or amount.
I weigh in the vicinity of 80kg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vicinity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | voisinage , vicinité, environs |
| German | Nähe , Nachbarschaft, Umgebung |
| Portuguese | vizinhança , arredores |
| Spanish | vecindad, proximidad , cercanías, inmediaciones, alrededores |
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 vicinity come from?
From vicine + -ity, from Latin vīcīnitās (“neighborhood”) (compare French vicinité), from vīcīnus (“neighbor”) (compare French voisin), from vīcus (“village”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).