craftiness
noun
craftiness is a noun meaning “Skill in deception, slyness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-A-F-T-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of craftiness is craftinesses.
What does craftiness mean?
noun
- 1
Skill in deception, slyness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce craftiness?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-craftiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of craftiness
- craftinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is craftiness?
Craftiness appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Craftiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense skill in deception, slyness:
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 craftiness come from?
From crafty + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).