doneness
noun
doneness is a noun meaning “The extent to which a food has been cooked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-O-N-E-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of doneness is donenesses.
What does doneness mean?
noun
- 1
The extent to which a food has been cooked.
- 2
The property of being finished; completion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of doneness
- donenesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is doneness?
Doneness appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).
Doneness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense extent to which a food has been cooked:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Garstufe |
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.