cheerfulness
/ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəlnəs/
"cheerfulness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheerfulness” is uncommon English (frequency #66,558 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,558
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being cheerful; joy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheerfulness · cheerfulness · English
cheerfulness · rank #66,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,558
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chauvinistic
Nearest frequency peer: chauvinistic (-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 “cheerfulness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- charterhouse
charterhouse
33,446 corpus weight
- chatbot
chatbot
33,445 corpus weight
- chauvinistic
chauvinistic
33,444 corpus weight
- cheerfulness
cheerfulness
33,443 corpus weight
- Chenoweth
Chenoweth
33,442 corpus weight
- chichi
chichi
33,441 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cheerfulness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheerfulness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəlnəs/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheerfulness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheerfulness is uncommon English at frequency #66,558 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəlnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being cheerful; joy.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cheerfulness, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cherefulnes; equivalent to cheerful + -ness. The correct English form is cheerfulness, spelled C-H-E-E-R-F-U-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being cheerful; joy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheerfulness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.
The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns - a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms - days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.
Etymology
From Middle English cherefulnes; equivalent to cheerful + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).