peculiarity

Other forms of peculiarity

plural

peculiarities·

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 peculiarity

What does peculiarity mean?

peculiarity means "an odd or unusual characteristic". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peculiarity?

peculiarity has 6 syllables: pe-cu-li-ar-i-ty. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /pɪˌkjuliˈɛɹəti/.

What is another word for peculiarity?

Close synonyms include distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic, specialness, specialty, speciality. 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.

Is peculiarity a common word?

peculiarity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.