clearness
"clearness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clearness” is uncommon English (frequency #73,966 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,966
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brightness, brilliancy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-clearness · clearness · English
clearness · rank #73,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,966
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chugs
Nearest frequency peer: chugs (-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 “clearness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chive
chive
26,039 corpus weight
- choreo
choreo
26,038 corpus weight
- chugs
chugs
26,036 corpus weight
- clearness
clearness
26,035 corpus weight
- clop
clop
26,034 corpus weight
- cobs
cobs
26,033 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “clearness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clearness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “clearness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
clearness is uncommon English at frequency #73,966 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for clearness 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English clernesse; equivalent to clear + -ness. The correct English form is clearness, spelled C-L-E-A-R-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Brightness, brilliancy.
- 2Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
- 3The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
- 4The state of being free from obstruction or interference.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clearness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thenne sayd he Fair swete fader Ihesu Cryst yf euer I dyd thyng that pleasyd the lord / for thy pyte ne haue me not in despyte for my synnes done afore tyme / and that thou shewe me some thynge of that I seke / And with that he sawe the chamber dore open and there came oute a grete clerenes / that the hows was as bryghte as all torches of the world had be…
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.
Etymology
From Middle English clernesse; equivalent to clear + -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); 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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