comprehensiveness
/kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
"comprehensiveness" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comprehensiveness” is uncommon English (frequency #97,959 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,959
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being comprehensive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-comprehensiveness · comprehensiveness · English
comprehensiveness · rank #97,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,959
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH confab
Nearest frequency peer: confab (+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 “comprehensiveness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- colorimetric
colorimetric
2,046 corpus weight
- colourist
colourist
2,045 corpus weight
- comprehensi…
comprehensiveness
2,042 corpus weight
- confab
confab
2,041 corpus weight
- confraterni…
confraternity
2,039 corpus weight
- conjunctive
conjunctive
2,038 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “comprehensiveness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comprehensiveness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #97,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “comprehensiveness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
comprehensiveness is uncommon English at frequency #97,959 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being comprehensive.".
comprehensiveness has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From comprehensive + -ness. The correct English form is comprehensiveness, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being comprehensive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comprehensiveness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was bent on prosecuting without delay his schemes of conquest in other quarters — schemes of a grandeur and a comprehensiveness unknown to any previous monarch.
But granting that our ignorance of the extent of Nature's powers may in some respects be incurable, still the question concerning the truth of our knowledge bears with far heavier stress upon its validity, than upon its adequacy or comprehensiveness.
Etymology
From comprehensive + -ness.
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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