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dankness

UK /ˈdæŋk.nəs/noun

dankness is spelled D-A-N-K-N-E-S-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dankness means “The state or quality of being dank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dankness is danknesses.

How many letters and syllables are in dankness?

Letters8: D-A-N-K-N-E-S-S
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th 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 dankness?

Dankness appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).

How do you pronounce dankness?

  • UK /ˈdæŋk.nəs/

Dankness has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-dankness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dankness

  • danknesses plural

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

What does dankness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being dank.

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

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