dangerosity

noun

"dangerosity" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

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

Corpus desk

Index EN-dangerosity · dangerosity · English

dangerosity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for dangerosity
PropertyValue
Headworddangerosity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “dangerosity” in English

dangerositysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dangerosity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being dangerous.".

dangerosity doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From dangerous + -osity; sometimes from French dangerosité. The correct English form is dangerosity, spelled D-A-N-G-E-R-O-S-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality of being dangerous.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how dangerosity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Naturally inquisitive, I ran the gauntlet of the place at the risk of my life. Remarking upon the “dangerosity” and its evident mismanagement to a stranger who proved to belong to the Forest City, he exclaimed. “Dangerous, well I should smile, and this is the great Union Depot of St. Louis.[…]”
  2. He told of his dangerosity and liability to start an explosion that would blow up the court house and make the people in Lost Nation hunt their cyclone cellars.

Etymology

From dangerous + -osity; sometimes from French dangerosité.

Synonyms

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 "dangerosity"?
"dangerosity" is spelled D-A-N-G-E-R-O-S-I-T-Y.
What does "dangerosity" mean?
As a noun, "dangerosity" means: The quality of being dangerous.
What is the origin of the word "dangerosity"?
From dangerous + -osity; sometimes from French dangerosité. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list