blandness
"blandness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blandness” is uncommon English (frequency #92,393 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,393
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blandness · blandness · English
blandness · rank #92,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,393
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Blackley
Nearest frequency peer: Blackley (-2 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 “blandness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biggies
biggies
7,613 corpus weight
- BIV
BIV
7,611 corpus weight
- Blackley
Blackley
7,610 corpus weight
- blandness
blandness
7,608 corpus weight
- Boal
Boal
7,606 corpus weight
- Bolzano
Bolzano
7,603 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blandness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blandness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blandness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blandness is uncommon English at frequency #92,393 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blandness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bland + -ness. The correct English form is blandness, spelled B-L-A-N-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
- 2The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
- 3The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blandness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed va…
But generally, these summits have been real snoozers, producing statements of such vague blandness that they make G-20 resolutions read like Harry Potter page-turners.
Etymology
From bland + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).