brokeness
"brokeness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brokeness” 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 characteristic of being broke; having no money.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brokeness · brokeness · English
brokeness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | brokeness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brokeness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brokeness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The characteristic of being broke; having no money.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brokeness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From broke + -ness. The correct English form is brokeness, spelled B-R-O-K-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The characteristic of being broke; having no money.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brokeness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: bankruptcy
Etymology
From broke + -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.