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cattiness

noun

cattiness is spelled C-A-T-T-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cattiness means “The quality of being catty; cattishness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cattiness is cattinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in cattiness?

Letters9: C-A-T-T-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cattiness?

Cattiness appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of cattiness

  • cattinesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cattiness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being catty; cattishness

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cattiness come from?

From catty + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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