accountableness
/əˈkaʊn.tə.bəl.nəs/
"accountableness" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“accountableness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
Corpus desk
Index EN-accountableness · accountableness · English
accountableness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accountableness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈkaʊn.tə.bəl.nəs/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “accountableness” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
accountableness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈkaʊn.tə.bəl.nəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.".
No misspelling variants are generated for accountableness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From accountable + -ness. The correct English form is accountableness, spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
Etymology
From accountable + -ness.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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