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archness

noun

archness is spelled A-R-C-H-N-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, archness means “The state of being arch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of archness is archnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in archness?

Letters8: A-R-C-H-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is archness?

Archness appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of archness

  • archnesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does archness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being arch.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does archness come from?

From arch (“principal; primary; mischievous”, adjective) + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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