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artlessness

noun

artlessness is spelled A-R-T-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, artlessness means “the state or quality of being artless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of artlessness is artlessnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in artlessness?

Letters11: A-R-T-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th 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 artlessness?

Artlessness appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 artlessness

  • artlessnesses plural

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

What does artlessness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    the state or quality of being artless

  2. 2

    the state or quality of being innocent; naïveté

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

Artlessness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishingenuidad, candidez (the state of being artless), inocencia (innocence)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does artlessness come from?

From artless + -ness.

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

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