coarseness
"coarseness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coarseness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coarseness · coarseness · English
coarseness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | coarseness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coarseness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coarseness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
coarseness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coarse + -ness. The correct English form is coarseness, spelled C-O-A-R-S-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
- 2The quality or state of being coarse
- 3Something that is coarse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coarseness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—[…]—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
Etymology
From coarse + -ness.
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.