drunkenness
/ˈdɹʌŋkən.nəs/
"drunkenness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drunkenness” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,214
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A state of being drunk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drunkenness · drunkenness · English
drunkenness · rank #33,214 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,214
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH DPRK
Nearest frequency peer: DPRK (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “drunkenness”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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66,787 corpus weight
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What this shows “drunkenness” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drunkenness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹʌŋkən.nəs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #33,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “drunkenness”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around drunkenness (IPA /ˈdɹʌŋkən.nəs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,214 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A state of being drunk.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for drunkenness, with forms such as "ddrunkenness", "drnukenness", and "drrunkenness". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From drunken + -ness. The correct English form is drunkenness, spelled D-R-U-N-K-E-N-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A state of being drunk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drunkenness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]
The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal of phys…
Etymology
From drunken + -ness.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddrunkenness
- drnukenness
- drrunkenness
- druknenness
- druneknness
- drunkenenss
- drunkeness
- drunkennes
- drunkennses
- drunkkenness
- drunkneness
- drunnkenness
- durnkenness
- rdunkenness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drunkenness - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).