comeliness

noun

"comeliness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“comeliness” 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) - Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.

Corpus desk

Index EN-comeliness · comeliness · English

comeliness · 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

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Key facts for comeliness
PropertyValue
Headwordcomeliness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “comeliness” in English

comelinessranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

comeliness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for comeliness in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 comely + -ness (“the quality of being”). The correct English form is comeliness, spelled C-O-M-E-L-I-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how comeliness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead[…]

Etymology

From comely + -ness (“the quality of being”).

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comeliness"?
"comeliness" is spelled C-O-M-E-L-I-N-E-S-S.
What does "comeliness" mean?
As a noun, "comeliness" means: Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
What is the origin of the word "comeliness"?
From comely + -ness (“the quality of being”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list