brittleness
"brittleness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brittleness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being brittle (in various senses).
Corpus desk
Index EN-brittleness · brittleness · English
brittleness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brittleness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brittleness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brittleness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being brittle (in various senses).".
No misspelling variants are generated for brittleness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brittle + -ness. The correct English form is brittleness, spelled B-R-I-T-T-L-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being brittle (in various senses).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brittleness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[David] Riesman did his best, in prefaces to two subsequent editions of the book (at great length in 1961, and, with some brittleness about having to do it once more, in 1969), to correct this reading—to insist that he never meant to suggest that Americans now were any more conformist than they ever had been, or that there's even such a thing as social st…
These vignettes often have the flavor of case studies, with interlocking themes related to the brittleness of the body and the complicated work of mourning.
Etymology
From brittle + -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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.