visibility
/ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/noun
visibility is spelled V-I-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is visability: 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. Visibility is a noun meaning “The condition of being visible”. The plural of visibility is visibilities.
How many letters and syllables are in visibility?
| Letters | 10: V-I-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, visability, 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 visibility?
Visibility is spelled V-I-S-I-B-I-L-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 visibility 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 visibility?
Visibility appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 visibility?
- US /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
- US /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
- US /ˌvɪz.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
Visibility has 5 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-visibility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with visibility?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as visibility from its last stressed vowel (/ɪlɪti/):
- availability
- mobility
- flexibility
- hostility
- profitability
- nobility
- viability
- versatility
- 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 visibility
- visibilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does visibility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The condition of being visible.
- 2
The degree to which things may be seen.
The visibility from that angle was good.
- 3
The scope within which a variable, function, etc. is able to be accessed directly.
- 4
obsoleterareSomething worthy of being seen; a sight.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate visibility?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of visibility: vis, viz, vsby.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Visibility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense degree to which things may be seen:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | visibilité |
| German | Sicht, Sichtbarkeit, Sichtverhältnisse, Sichtweite |
| Portuguese | visibilidade |
| Spanish | visibilidad |
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 visibility come from?
From Middle French visibilité, from Late Latin visibilitas; equivalent to visible + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).