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Chineseness

noun

Chineseness is spelled C-H-I-N-E-S-E-N-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Chineseness means “The quality or state of being Chinese” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Chineseness?

Letters11: C-H-I-N-E-S-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th 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 Chineseness?

Chineseness appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

What does Chineseness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality or state of being Chinese.

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

Chineseness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or quality:

LanguageWords
Frenchsinité, sinicité

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Chineseness come from?

From Chinese + -ness.

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

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