bluntness
/ˈblʌnt.nəs/
"bluntness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bluntness” is uncommon English (frequency #69,691 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,691
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The characteristic of being blunt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bluntness · bluntness · English
bluntness · rank #69,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,691
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blowhard
Nearest frequency peer: blowhard (-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 “bluntness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bix
bix
30,313 corpus weight
- blarney
blarney
30,312 corpus weight
- blowhard
blowhard
30,311 corpus weight
- bluntness
bluntness
30,310 corpus weight
- bocce
bocce
30,309 corpus weight
- borscht
borscht
30,307 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bluntness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluntness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblʌnt.nəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bluntness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bluntness is uncommon English at frequency #69,691 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblʌnt.nəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The characteristic of being blunt.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bluntness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness. The correct English form is bluntness, spelled B-L-U-N-T-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The characteristic of being blunt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bluntness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
Etymology
From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness.
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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