cowardliness

Name: cowardliness, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“cowardliness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English: 12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The characteristic of being cowardly.

Corpus desk

Index EN-cowardliness · cowardliness · English

cowardliness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-THIN "C" thin
PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for cowardliness
Property	Value
Headword	cowardliness
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	12
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cowardliness” in English

cowardlinessranks 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

cowardliness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

cowardliness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From cowardly + -ness. The correct English form is cowardliness, spelled C-O-W-A-R-D-L-I-N-E-S-S.

Definition

1
The characteristic of being cowardly.
2
A cowardly action.

Etymology

From cowardly + -ness.

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 "cowardliness"?

"cowardliness" is spelled C-O-W-A-R-D-L-I-N-E-S-S.

What does "cowardliness" mean?

As a noun, "cowardliness" means: The characteristic of being cowardly.

What is the origin of the word "cowardliness"?

From cowardly + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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