virility
/vəˈɹɪlɪti/
"virility" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“virility” is uncommon English (frequency #57,162 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,162
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being virile.
Corpus desk
Index EN-virility · virility · English
virility · rank #57,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,162
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vilify
Nearest frequency peer: vilify (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “virility”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- verbose
verbose
42,843 corpus weight
- vespers
vespers
42,841 corpus weight
- vilify
vilify
42,840 corpus weight
- virility
virility
42,839 corpus weight
- Wahhabi
Wahhabi
42,837 corpus weight
- Walsingham
Walsingham
42,836 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “virility” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virility |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vəˈɹɪlɪti/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “virility” in English
Rare enough to double-check
virility is uncommon English at frequency #57,162 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vəˈɹɪlɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
virility has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From virile + -ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās. The correct English form is virility, spelled V-I-R-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being virile.
- 2Manly character, quality, or nature.
- 3The ability of a man to procreate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virility appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
Etymology
From virile + -ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās.
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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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