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deepness

UK /ˈdiːpnəs/noun

deepness is spelled D-E-E-P-N-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, deepness means “The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of deepness is deepnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in deepness?

Letters8: D-E-E-P-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is deepness?

Deepness appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 deepness?

  • UK /ˈdiːpnəs/

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

What rhymes with deepness?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as deepness from its last stressed vowel (/ipnəs/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of deepness

  • deepnesses plural

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

What does deepness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)

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

Where does deepness come from?

From Middle English depnesse, from Old English dēopnes (“deepness; depth; an abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *deupnassī, equivalent to deep + -ness. Cognate with German Low German Deepnis (“deepness, depth”).

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

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