awakeness

noun

"awakeness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“awakeness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being awake

Corpus desk

Index EN-awakeness · awakeness · English

awakeness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for awakeness
PropertyValue
Headwordawakeness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “awakeness” in English

awakenessranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

awakeness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality or state of being awake".

awakeness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From awake + -ness. The correct English form is awakeness, spelled A-W-A-K-E-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality or state of being awake

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how awakeness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "I sat up in bed with that feeling of broad awakeness and alertness which comes to us sometimes, and caught my breath as I listened, for through the stillness of the night came the unmistakable sound of a gentle tapping from behind the paneling of the wall.
  2. The kind of awakeness that allows you to be appropriate to whatever moment you're in.

Etymology

From awake + -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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "awakeness"?
"awakeness" is spelled A-W-A-K-E-N-E-S-S.
What does "awakeness" mean?
As a noun, "awakeness" means: The quality or state of being awake
What is the origin of the word "awakeness"?
From awake + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list