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cosiness

noun

cosiness is spelled C-O-S-I-N-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cosiness means “The state or quality of being cosy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cosiness is cosinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in cosiness?

Letters8: C-O-S-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cosiness?

Cosiness appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of cosiness

  • cosinesses plural
  • coziness

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cosiness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKThe state or quality of being cosy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cosiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or quality of being cosy:

LanguageWords
Portugueseaconchego

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cosiness come from?

From cosy + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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