flexibility

Other forms of flexibility

plural

flexibilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flexibility

What does flexibility mean?

flexibility means "the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flexibility?

flexibility has 5 syllables: flex-i-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌflɛksəˈbɪləti/.

What is another word for flexibility?

Close synonyms include flexibleness, flexibleness, tractability, tractableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of flexibility?

The recorded antonyms are inflexibility, inflexibility.

Is flexibility a common word?

flexibility is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with flexibility?

23 words rhyme with flexibility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.