facetiousness

noun

"facetiousness" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being facetious

Corpus desk

Index EN-facetiousness · facetiousness · English

facetiousness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for facetiousness
PropertyValue
Headwordfacetiousness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “facetiousness” in English

facetiousnesssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

facetiousness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

facetiousness has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From facetious + -ness. The correct English form is facetiousness, spelled F-A-C-E-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The state of being facetious
  2. 2
    The product or result of being facetious.

Etymology

From facetious + -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 "facetiousness"?
"facetiousness" is spelled F-A-C-E-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.
What does "facetiousness" mean?
As a noun, "facetiousness" means: The state of being facetious
What is the origin of the word "facetiousness"?
From facetious + -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