destructiveness
"destructiveness" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“destructiveness” is uncommon English (frequency #88,267 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,267
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being destructive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-destructiveness · destructiveness · English
destructiveness · rank #88,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,267
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dhillon
Nearest frequency peer: Dhillon (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “destructiveness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- demonise
demonise
11,738 corpus weight
- derogation
derogation
11,736 corpus weight
- destructive…
destructiveness
11,734 corpus weight
- Dhillon
Dhillon
11,733 corpus weight
- dhow
dhow
11,732 corpus weight
- dicta
dicta
11,731 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “destructiveness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destructiveness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #88,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “destructiveness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
destructiveness is uncommon English at frequency #88,267 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being destructive.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for destructiveness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From destructive + -ness. The correct English form is destructiveness, spelled D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being destructive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how destructiveness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Would Helen’s face-seductiveness have wrought as much destructiveness, Would Antony have followed Cleopatra like a lamb, Unless those ladies’ vanities for snaring male humanities Had been associated with a quantum suff. of glam.?
Etymology
From destructive + -ness.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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