legibility

Other forms of legibility

plural

legibilities·

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 legibility

What does legibility mean?

legibility means "distinctness that makes perception easy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in legibility?

legibility has 5 syllables: leg-i-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌlɛdʒəˈbɪləti/.

What is another word for legibility?

Close synonyms include discernability, readability. 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 legibility?

The recorded antonyms are illegibility.

Is legibility a common word?

legibility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 legibility?

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