vivacity
/vɪˈvæsɪti/
"vivacity" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vivacity” is uncommon English (frequency #69,569 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,569
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being vivacious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vivacity · vivacity · English
vivacity · rank #69,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,569
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH waggoner
Nearest frequency peer: waggoner (+2 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 “vivacity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- vexatious
vexatious
30,437 corpus weight
- vivacity
vivacity
30,432 corpus weight
- waggoner
waggoner
30,430 corpus weight
- Wahhabism
Wahhabism
30,429 corpus weight
- Walmsley
Walmsley
30,428 corpus weight
- Wario
Wario
30,427 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vivacity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivacity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɪˈvæsɪti/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vivacity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vivacity is uncommon English at frequency #69,569 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vɪˈvæsɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality or state of being vivacious.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vivacity in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 vivac(ious) + -ity, borrowed from Latin vīvācitās. The correct English form is vivacity, spelled V-I-V-A-C-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The quality or state of being vivacious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vivacity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business.
1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination, We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable d…
Etymology
From vivac(ious) + -ity, borrowed from Latin vīvācitās.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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