attentiveness
"attentiveness" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attentiveness” is uncommon English (frequency #66,476 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,476
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being attentive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-attentiveness · attentiveness · English
attentiveness · rank #66,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,476
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Athlone
Nearest frequency peer: Athlone (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “attentiveness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ARPA
ARPA
33,530 corpus weight
- Atal
Atal
33,527 corpus weight
- Athlone
Athlone
33,526 corpus weight
- attentivene…
attentiveness
33,525 corpus weight
- Aurobindo
Aurobindo
33,523 corpus weight
- authorial
authorial
33,522 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “attentiveness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attentiveness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #66,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “attentiveness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
attentiveness is uncommon English at frequency #66,476 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being attentive.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for attentiveness in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From attentive + -ness. The correct English form is attentiveness, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being attentive.
Etymology
From attentive + -ness.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).