enoughness

noun

"enoughness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“enoughness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.

Corpus desk

Index EN-enoughness · enoughness · English

enoughness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for enoughness
PropertyValue
Headwordenoughness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “enoughness” in English

enoughnessranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

enoughness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for enoughness, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From enough + -ness. The correct English form is enoughness, spelled E-N-O-U-G-H-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enoughness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Secretary of State Dulles pointed out that the report's aim was not "scaring our people but giving them a realistic picture of the dilemma in which they would find themselves" when the Soviet Union as well as the United States had attained "enoughness."
  2. But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness, often stemming from childhood...

Etymology

From enough + -ness.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enoughness"?
"enoughness" is spelled E-N-O-U-G-H-N-E-S-S.
What does "enoughness" mean?
As a noun, "enoughness" means: The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.
What is the origin of the word "enoughness"?
From enough + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list