conscientiousness
"conscientiousness" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conscientiousness” is uncommon English (frequency #68,113 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,113
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or characteristic of being conscientious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-conscientiousness · conscientiousness · English
conscientiousness · rank #68,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,113
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH conglomeration
Nearest frequency peer: conglomeration (-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 “conscientiousness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- comorbid
comorbid
31,892 corpus weight
- confit
confit
31,891 corpus weight
- conglomerat…
conglomeration
31,890 corpus weight
- conscientio…
conscientiousness
31,888 corpus weight
- consignor
consignor
31,885 corpus weight
- contrivance
contrivance
31,884 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “conscientiousness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conscientiousness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #68,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “conscientiousness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
conscientiousness is uncommon English at frequency #68,113 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or characteristic of being conscientious.".
Zero misspellings are on record for conscientiousness in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From conscientious + -ness. The correct English form is conscientiousness, spelled C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or characteristic of being conscientious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conscientiousness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is a terrible thing a Man should be put to Death for a Crime he is not Guilty of; yet so oddly Circumstances may meet in the infinite variety of Accidents, that it is possible it should come to pass, all the Wisdom that Judges, and Conscientiousness that Juries may be possess'd of, notwithstanding.
We come now to the greatest and noblest of the Moral Powers of Man; to that power which makes him quite a different order of being from any other that we know of, and which is the glory and crown of his existence:—his Conscientiousness.
Etymology
From conscientious + -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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