evilness
"evilness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“evilness” is uncommon English (frequency #88,319 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,319
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being evil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-evilness · evilness · English
evilness · rank #88,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,319
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH evilly
Nearest frequency peer: evilly (-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 “evilness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- erythropoie…
erythropoietin
11,688 corpus weight
- EUA
EUA
11,686 corpus weight
- Eurogamer
Eurogamer
11,685 corpus weight
- evilly
evilly
11,683 corpus weight
- evilness
evilness
11,682 corpus weight
- exoticism
exoticism
11,680 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “evilness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | evilness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “evilness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
evilness is uncommon English at frequency #88,319 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality or state of being evil.".
evilness has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -ness. The correct English form is evilness, spelled E-V-I-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality or state of being evil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how evilness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] they lament the evilness and malice of evil men, and pray God for the evil, that he will convert them from their evilness and malice, and so make them good of evil men.
Etymology
From Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -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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