cockiness
"cockiness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cockiness” is uncommon English (frequency #74,837 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,837
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being cocky.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cockiness · cockiness · English
cockiness · rank #74,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,837
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Clemenceau
Nearest frequency peer: Clemenceau (-2 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 “cockiness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ciliary
ciliary
25,168 corpus weight
- cinematogra…
cinematographic
25,167 corpus weight
- Clemenceau
Clemenceau
25,166 corpus weight
- cockiness
cockiness
25,164 corpus weight
- Colne
Colne
25,162 corpus weight
- commish
commish
25,161 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cockiness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cockiness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cockiness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cockiness is uncommon English at frequency #74,837 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being cocky.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cockiness in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cocky + -ness. The correct English form is cockiness, spelled C-O-C-K-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being cocky.
Etymology
From cocky + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).